Alejandro La Greca got his degree in molecular biology at the University of Buenos Aires. As an undergraduate, he joined a lab in the Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine (IBYME-CONICET, Buenos Aires) to study hormone-dependent gene regulation in endometrial adenocarcinoma cells, which resulted in a bachelor thesis. He then went on to obtain his PhD on the regulatory mechanisms of nuclear steroid receptors and chromosome architecture using the same in vitro model. During his PhD he completed three separate internships in the Center for Genomic Regulation (Barcelona) as part of a collaborative project focused on investigating cell-type specific gene regulation on endometrial and mammary cancer cells. Currently, he holds a postdoc position at FLENI Institute (Buenos Aires) where he studies Stem Cell Biology and the expression dynamics of non-coding RNAs during cardiac differentiation using diverse molecular, gene editing and bioinformatic tools.

Field of work
Identification of circular RNAs involved in the generation of cardiac progenitors derived from pluripotent stem cells and their biomedical implications

Interests
Stem Cell Biology, Gene editing, Disease modelling, Cardiac differentiation, Bioinformatics