Eduard Montanya

Eduard Montanya is Professor of Medicine at the University of Barcelona, Head of the Diabetes Section at Bellvitge University Hospital, and Coordinator of the Diabetes and Metabolism Research Program at Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain. He is the Scientific Director of the Spanish Network of Biomedical Research Centers in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Diseases (CIBERDEM). Dr Montanya’s main research interests are the regulation of beta-cell mass, cell therapy and regenerative medicine, and new drug therapies in diabetes. He has been Chair of the Islet Study Group of the Spanish Diabetes Association, President of the Catalan Diabetes Association, Secretary of the Islet Study group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, ad-hoc member of the Scientific Committee of European Union Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI2 JU) and President of the Diabetes Advisory Council of the Health Department of Catalonia.