Skeletal mineralization - enzymes and animal models

Jose Luis Millan

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Bone Abstracts (2017) 6 | DOI: 10.1530/boneabs.6.IS05BIOG

ICCBH2017 Invited Speaker Abstracts (1) (1) (2 abstracts)

Skeletal mineralization – enzymes and animal models

José Luis Millán & Abstract

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José Luis Millán

Professor José Luis Millán received his early training in clinical chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and his PhD in Physiological Chemistry at the University of Umeå, Sweden, in 1983. Professor Millán is currently based at the Children’s Health Research Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, California, USA. He studies the mechanisms of initiation of skeletal and dental mineralization, the pathophysiology of hypophosphatasia and other soft-bones conditions, as well as dystrophic calcification, with a particular focus on medial vascular calcification.