Dionisio Lorenzo Lorenzo-Villegas

Prof. Dr. Dionisio Lorenzo Lorenzo-Villegas

Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Fernando Pessoa Canarias, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain
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Biography

Dr. Dionisio Lorenzo Lorenzo-Villegas is Dean at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa-Canarias (UFP-C, Spain). He completed his PhD studies in Cancer (Biology and Clinics) at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Physiology, Genetics and Immunology of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), and was awarded the Pin Emblem of the Breast and Gynaecological Cancer Association of the Canary Islands in October 2022. He recently led the Service-Learning Projects Institutionalisation at the UFP-C. He has published fourteen papers in various journals and serves as a member of the board of trustees of the Canary Islands Foundation for Cancer Research and the Healthy Habits Project at the UFP-C. His teaching disciplines include biochemistry, molecular biology and biophysics, and his interests include neuroscience, cancer, biochemistry and nutrition. At this moment, he is supervising a doctoral thesis on systemic inflammatory markers at the UFP-C. With respect to infection diagnostic tools, he has performed cell culture methods and characterized cell–cell interaction and altered cell pathological progression by using CLSM (indirect fluorescence immunohistochemistry), as well as other immunotechniques (ELISA, EMSA, Western blot) in combination with PCR and RT-PCR techniques to correlate inflammatory stages with markers such as NF-kappaB. He has also critically analyzed serological tests.

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Universidad Fernando Pessoa Canarias

Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain

Faculty of Health Sciences

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