Speaker

M. Luisa Iruela-Arispe, Ph.D., is the Stephen Walter Ranson Professor and Chair of the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Born in Spain, she immigrated to South America to attend school in Argentina and Brazil. She received her Ph.D. in 1989, followed by postdoctoral training at the University of Washington in Seattle. From 1994 to 1998, she was an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Arispe subsequently joined UCLA in 1998 before moving to Northwestern in 2019 to chair the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology.  Her vision is to decode the vascular system at every level: from molecules to medicine and to drive transformative discoveries that create lasting, impactful advancements.  She is a Fellow of the American Society of Cell Biology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was elected a foreign member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine.

« Go Back