Function:
Spanish physician and politician; professor of Regenerative Medicine, Seville; Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs in the present and former Spanish government headed by José Luis Zapatero.
Short Bio:
Soria graduated in Medicine at the Universidad de Valencia. Postdoctoral in Germany (Max Plank Institut fur Biophysikalische Chemie) and United Kingdom (UEA). He was the Coordinator of the Physiology Area in the Agencia Nacional de Evaluacion y Prospectiva and of the European Embryonic Stem Cell Network. He was Professor of Physiology in Alicante and Director of the Centro Andaluz de Biologia Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa in Sevilla. He has been the President of the Societies of Biophysics(1997-2000), Physiology (1998-2000) and Diabetes (2000-2004) and the European Biophysics Societies Association (2000-2003). He has been awarded many prizes, among them the Gold Medal and Prize of the Royal Academy of Medicine (1989). In 2005 he was awarded the Premio Galien for the best research work. He published a great number of articles in international scientific reviews. In 2007 he was appointed Minister of Health and Consumer affairs, to replace Elena Salgado.
Books:
B. Soria & V. Cena, Ion Channel Pharmacology, Oxford University Press, 1998.
I. Atwater, E. Rojas & B. Soria, Biophysics of the Pancreatic B-Cell, Springer, 1987.
B. Soria, Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Islets of Langerhans - Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Springer, 1998.
Publications:
- Vaca P., Berná G., Araujo R., Carneiro E. M., Bedoya F. J., Soria B., Martín F, “Nicotinamide induces differentiation of embryonic stem cells into insulin-secreting cells”, Experimental Cell Research 2008; 314(5):969-74
- Todorova M. G., Soria B., Quesada I., “Gap junctional intercellular communication is required to maintain embryonic stem cells in a non-differentiated and proliferative state”, Journal of Cellular Physiology 2008; 214(2):354-62
- Kabelitz D, Geissler EK, Soria B, Schroeder IS, Fändrich F, Chatenoud L “Toward cell-based therapy of type I diabetes” Trends Immunol. 2008; 29(2):68-74
- Vaca P, Martín F, Vegara-Meseguer JM, Rovira JM, Berná G, Soria “Induction of differentiation of embryonic stem cells into insulin-secreting cells by fetal soluble factors” Stem Cells. 2006;24(2):258-65
- Calvanese V, Horrillo A, Hmadcha A, Suarez-Alvarez B, Fernandez AF, Lara E, Casado S, Menendez P, Bueno C, Garcia-Castro J, Rubio R, Lapunzina P, Alaminos M, Borghese L, Terstegge S, Harrison NJ, Moore HD, Brüstle O, Lopez-Larrea C, Andrews PW, Soria B, Esteller M, Fraga MF “Cancer genes hypermethylated in human embryonic stem cells” PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(9):e3294
- Quesada I, Todorova MG, Alonso-Magdalena P, Beltrá M, Carneiro EM, Martin F, Nadal A, Soria B “Glucose induces opposite intracellular Ca2+ concentration oscillatory patterns in identified alpha- and beta-cells within intact human islets of Langerhans” Diabetes. 2006;55(9):2463-9.
- León-Quinto T, Jones J, Skoudy A, Burcin M, Soria B “In vitro directed differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells into insulin-producing cells” Diabetologia. 2004 Aug;47(8):1442-51
- Soria B, Skoudy A, Martín F “From stem cells to beta cells: new strategies in cell therapy of diabetes mellitus” Diabetologia. 2001 Apr;44(4):407-15
- Quesada I, Rovira JM, Martin F, Roche E, Nadal A, Soria B “Nuclear KATP channels trigger nuclear Ca(2+) transients that modulate nuclear function” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Jul 9;99(14):9544-9
- Soria B, Roche E, Berná G, León-Quinto T, Reig JA, Martín F “Insulin-secreting cells derived from embryonic stem cells normalize glycemia in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice” Diabetes. 2000 49(2):157-62
- Nadal A, Ropero AB, Laribi O, Maillet M, Fuentes E, Soria B “Nongenomic actions of estrogens and xenoestrogens by binding at a plasma membrane receptor unrelated to estrogen receptor alpha and estrogen receptor beta” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 Oct 10;97(21):11603-8.