{"id":33382,"date":"2022-01-19T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermont.salk.edu\/?post_type=disclosure&#038;p=33382"},"modified":"2023-02-08T20:51:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T04:51:22","slug":"salk-institute-announces-departure-of-professor-juan-carlos-izpisua-belmonte","status":"publish","type":"disclosure","link":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/salk-institute-announces-departure-of-professor-juan-carlos-izpisua-belmonte\/","title":{"rendered":"Salk Institute announces departure of Professor Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA JOLLA\u2014The Salk Institute announced today that Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/scientist\/juan-carlos-izpisua-belmonte\/\">Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte<\/a>, a world-renowned researcher who has pioneered innovations in developmental biology, regenerative medicine and aging research at the Salk Institute, will be closing his Salk laboratory to join Altos Labs, a newly created life sciences company centered on human health research. Izpisua Belmonte, who has been at Salk for nearly thirty years, will depart to lead the San Diego division of Altos Institutes of Science to study cellular rejuvenation programming with the goal of improving human health.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33385\"  class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-33385 size-pr-300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Juan-Carlos-Belmonte-300x450.jpg\" alt=\"Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Juan-Carlos-Belmonte-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Juan-Carlos-Belmonte-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Juan-Carlos-Belmonte-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Juan-Carlos-Belmonte-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Juan-Carlos-Belmonte-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Juan-Carlos-Belmonte-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Juan-Carlos-Belmonte-147x221.jpg 147w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Juan-Carlos-Belmonte-458x687.jpg 458w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Juan-Carlos-Belmonte-585x878.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Juan-Carlos-Belmonte-553x830.jpg 553w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Juan-Carlos-Belmonte-750x1126.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Juan-Carlos-Belmonte-767x1151.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Juan-Carlos-Belmonte-945x1418.jpg 945w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Juan-Carlos-Belmonte-1250x1876.jpg 1250w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Juan-Carlos-Belmonte-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Juan-Carlos-Belmonte.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Juan-Carlos-Belmonte.jpg\">Haga clic aqu\u00ed<\/a> para obtener una imagen en alta resoluci\u00f3n.<br \/>Cr\u00e9dito: Instituto Salk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cJuan Carlos is a scientific trailblazer who is changing how we think about cellular aging and the potential for regenerative medicine,\u201d says Salk President and Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/scientist\/rusty-gage\/\">Rusty Gage<\/a>. \u201cAlthough Juan Carlos will always be considered a member of the Salk community, we will miss seeing him on the Salk campus. We are excited for the new opportunity that this move provides him to pursue work that will take on new clinical applications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Izpisua Belmonte, who was named one of\u00a0<em>HORA<\/em>\u00a0magazine\u2019s \u201c50 Most Influential People in Health Care\u201d for 2018, has pioneered\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/a-novel-technology-for-genome-editing-a-broad-range-of-mutations-in-live-organisms\/\">gene-editing technologies<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/salk-scientists-modify-crispr-epigenetically-treat-diabetes-kidney-disease-muscular-dystrophy\/\">epigenetic editing<\/a>\u00a0methods, regenerative and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/salk-scientists-expand-ability-stem-cells-regrow-tissue-type\/\">stem-cell techniques<\/a> to better understand how to reprogram and rejuvenate diseased cells. Recently, his lab showed how stem-cell therapy might be used to treat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/research-advances-one-step-closer-to-stem-cell-therapy-for-type-1-diabetes\/\">type 1 diabetes<\/a> y <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/new-study-shows-how-to-boost-muscle-regeneration-and-rebuild-tissue\/\">boost muscle regeneration and rebuild tissue<\/a>. The team also developed a chimeric tool that can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/chimeric-tool-advanced-for-wide-range-of-regenerative-medicine-biomedical-research-applications\/\">integrate human cells into animal tissue<\/a> in order to examine a host of diseases that are difficult to study by traditional methods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome Altos Labs to San Diego, a place with a strong and acclaimed community of basic science researchers,\u201d says Salk Senior Vice President and Chief Science Officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/scientist\/martin-hetzer\/\">Mart\u00edn Hetzer<\/a>. \u201cJuan Carlos has been a pioneer and innovator while at Salk, and I am excited to see this next chapter in his research unfold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am thankful for Salk\u2019s support during these three decades, which has allowed my lab to pursue innovative areas of scientific research,\u201d says Izpisua Belmonte, holder of the Roger Guillemin Chair. \u201cIt has been humbling to grow and work beside every member of our Salk community. Salk will always remain as some of the most inspiring and happiest memories of my life.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":33402,"template":"","faculty":[85],"disease-research":[146,335],"class_list":["post-33382","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","faculty-juan-carlos-izpisua-belmonte","disease-research-aging-and-regenerative-medicine","disease-research-regeneration"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Salk Institute announces departure of Professor Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte - Salk Institute for Biological Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/salk-institute-announces-departure-of-professor-juan-carlos-izpisua-belmonte\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Salk Institute announces departure of Professor Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte - Salk Institute for Biological Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LA JOLLA\u2014The Salk Institute announced today that Professor Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a world-renowned researcher who has pioneered innovations in developmental biology, regenerative medicine and aging research at the Salk Institute, will be closing his Salk laboratory to join Altos Labs, a newly created life sciences company centered on human health research. 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