Actividad Investigadora
Juan Mario Hurlé González
Área de Cáncer
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41Currículum vitae
Professor Juan M. Hurlé studied Medicine and Surgery at the University of Valladolid in Spain (1972). There and under the mentorship of Professor Pedro Gómez-Bosque developed his PhD work on the morphogenetic role of apoptotic cell death during heart development. His work deserved the PhD degree with Honors by the University of Valladolid (1974). He was working as Human Anatomy and Embryology associate profesor at the University of Santander (1973-1984) and in 1984 gained a full profesor position at the University of Extremadura. In 1986 he became full profesor at the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology of the University of Cantabria which is his current position. Meanwhile Prof. Hurlé has performed several postdoctoral visits including the Department of Zoology of the University Collage of Walles (1976-1977) or the Department of Biology of the University of lowa (1993). Along his career he has combined his teaching work in Human Anatomy with research on vertebrate development. His experience as anatomist resulted in the authorship of a human anatomy text book edited by McGraw Hill. “Anatomía Humana” by Juan Antonio García-Porrero and Juan M. Hurlé is broadly used along the Spanish-talking community of students in Medicine and Surgery, Nursery or Physiotherapy in Spain and América. Recently the have also published its complementary text book “Human neuronatomy”, edited by Panamericana. Additionally, his PhD work he wanted to go further in understanding the morphogenetic role of apoptonic cell death during development, choosing the vertebrate limb as experimental model. Since then he is paying special attention to the question of digit morphogenesis and his work has produced more tan 100 publications.