Maximiliano D’Angelo, Ph.D., is Faculty of the Development, Aging and Regeneration Program and the Immunity and Pathogenesis Program at the Sanford Burnham Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla, California. He is also member of the Tumor Initiation and Maintenance Program of the NCI-designated Cancer Center. Before moving to SBP, Dr. D’Angelo was a Principal investigator of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California San Francisco and Assistant Professor of the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics. Dr. D’Angelo received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and trained at The Scripps Research Institute and the Salk Institute for Biological before beginning his independent career. He has been Fellow of the Ellison Foundation and American Federation for Aging Research, Pew Latin American Fellow, Pew Biomedical Scholar and Scholar of the American Cancer Society.