Diversity in Life Sciences

Dr. Carlos Vera obtained his bachelor’s degree in Industrial Biotechnology from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. After college he worked at CDI Labs while obtaining an MBA in Management from the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico. He then obtained his doctorate from the University of Colorado at Boulder from the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department with a Certificate in Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology. His thesis focused on myosin myopathies by employing enzyme kinetics experiments. Dr. Vera is now a postdoctoral fellow in the Wu Lab at the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute where he is studying disease modeling using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).