Jorge E. Contreras, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology,
UC Davis School of Medicine
- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience
- Rutgers Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
- Past President of Latin American Biophysical Society (SOBLA)
Educational Qualifications
- B.S., Biology. School of Biological Sciences, Catholic University of Chile
- Ph.D., Physiology Graduate Program, School of Biological Sciences, Catholic University of ChileThesis: Biophysical properties of Connexin43 hemichannels: Possible role in cell death induced by ischemia.
Sponsor: Michael V.L. Bennett, D. Phil., and Juan Carlos Saez, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Neurophysiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Sponsor: Miguel Holmgren, Ph.D.
Honors/Awards
- Student Travel Award, CONICYT, Gap Junction Conference Hawaii, USA
- PhD Dissertation Honor Recognition, The Chilean Academy of Sciences
- Predoctoral fellowship, CONICYT, Chile
- Predoctoral fellowship, Kirby Foundation
- Postdoctoral fellowship, Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health
- Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE), National Institutes of Health
- Grass Fellowship for Neurophysiology, Marine Biological Laboratory
- Visiting Scientist Fellowship for research at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL)
- Member, NIH Neurotransporters, Receptors, Channels and Calcium Signaling (NTRC)
- Excellence in Research Award, New Jersey Health Foundation
J.E. Contreras Lab 