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Juan Pablo Zuniga Hertz, PhD

  • Assistant Professor of Systems Physiology

Biography

Dr. Juan Pablo Zuniga Hertz, PhD., serves as Associate Professor of Systems Physiology at D’Youville University College of Osteopathic Medicine. A biomedical scientist and educator with more than 20 years of research experience, Dr. Zuniga Hertz specializes in cellular and systems physiology, membrane biophysics, chronobiology and circadian biology, and cellular energetic metabolism. 

Dr. Zuniga Hertz has a strong record of scientific publications in national and international academic centers, so as undergraduate and graduate lecturing experience.

 

Education & Training

  • Post-doctoral researcher at School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, 2021
  • Post-doctoral fellow at the Albert Einstein college of Medicine, NY, 2018 
  • PhD. Sciences (Human Physiology), University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2014 
  • B.Sc. Biochemistry, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile, 2014

 

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