Alexandre Gaspar Maia, PhD
Director of Epigenomics at Mayo Clinic
2014 NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Alumnus
PhD, University of Coimbra / University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Training, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Bio
Dr. Gaspar Maia is working on manipulating the physical arrangement of chromatin, the structural material of chromosomes, in order to understand better the process of converting adult cells back to stem cells. He has discovered a specific marker on chromatin that could pause this entire process, perhaps identifying a target for new drugs that could potentially change the fate of a cell. This research could lead to developing stem cell therapies and concomitantly, counteracting disease. He completed his postdoctoral studies at Mount Sinai with Emily Bernstein, PhD.