IDIBAPS Researcher, Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Spain
Biography
Pau Sancho-Bru received his PhD in 2006 from the University of Barcelona. In 2007 he joined the Stem Cell Institute Leuven at the KU Leuven, Belgium as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2012 he was appointed Researcher in IDIBAPS. Pau Sancho-Bru is Principal Investigator at the Liver Injury and Repair Group and Researcher at IDIBAPS. His group is focused on understanding the mechanisms governing liver injury and regeneration and particularly the role of hepatic stellate cells and liver stem/progenitor cells in wound-healing responses. One of the main research interests of his group is developing in vitro systems for disease modeling and assessing the potential of stem cells for biomedical and biotechnological applications.