Diego Diez

Diego Diez obtained his degree in Biochemistry in 2000 from the Complutense University of Madrid. From 2001 to 2006 he completed his PhD in Biochemistry in the molecular endocrinology group from the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas “Alberto Sols”, Autonomous University of Madrid, where he worked on thyroid hormone mediated transcriptional regulation in the brain. He joined the Kanehisa laboratory at the Bioinformatics Center, Kyoto University from 2006 until 2012 as a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Dr. Wheelock, where he initially worked on antigenic variation in malaria parasites. His work with Dr. Wheelock further expanded to the development and application of systems biology approaches for the understanding of inflammatory diseases including atherosclerosis and asthma. In 2012 he became Assistant Professor at the Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University. Initially a member of the Bioinformatics and genomics laboratory he worked on network approaches for deciphering transcriptional regulatory immune networks. Since 2013 he is a co-leader of the Quantitative Immunology Research Unit, an interdisciplinary research group aiming to bring quantitative and experimental immunology together. His main focus is on the application of systems immunology approaches to understand the mechanisms behind chronic respiratory diseases.