- Simón Méndez Ferrer
- Junior group leader
- Ext.3310
Simón Méndez-Ferrer received his BSc in 1998 and his PhD in
2004 from the Universidad de Sevilla. His doctoral work, performed
in the Department of Medical Physiology under the direction of José Lopez-Barneo
and Juan José Toledo-Aral, characterized properties of the carotid
body of potential interest for neuroregenerative strategies based on the
biological delivery of catecholamines and neurotrophic factors. His work
during his postdoctoral period in the laboratory of Paul S. Frenette at Mount
Sinai School of Medicine (New York, 2006-09) showed that hematopoietic stem
cell traffic is regulated by circadian oscillations and described the mechanism
underlying this. His subsequent work as an Assistant Professor at Mount Sinai
(2009-10) used nestin expression as a marker to identify self-renewing mesenchymal
stem cells, and determined their crucial role in the hematopoietic stem cell
niche. Simón is supported by the Ramón y Cajal Program, and
joined the CNIC in late 2010.
