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Bio
Teresa Mastracci, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at IUPUI, and adjunct Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Indiana University School of Medicine.Â
Mastracci completed her post-secondary education in Canada, earning her bachelor’s degree from the University of Guelph, and her PhD from the University of Toronto at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute. Mastracci moved on to postdoctoral studies at Columbia University and the Naomi Berrie Center for Diabetes Research in New York. Here she merged her interests in developmental biology and human disease by studying how the pancreatic insulin-producing beta cell develops and functions in the normal and diabetic context. In 2007, Mastracci was named the Naomi Berrie Fellow in Diabetes Research and was granted research support by the Russell Berrie Foundation. Subsequently in 2010, she was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, which continued to support her career development and research. Together these fellowships were instrumental in launching Mastracci’s career in the field of diabetes research, and as a result she was recruited to Indiana University School of Medicine. She has subsequently been awarded a prestigious Career Development Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation as well as an NIH R01 grant, which will continue to grow her research program.
In 2017 Mastracci was named one of the top Ten Under 40 up & coming stars in Biopharma Research and Business by Genetic Engineering News and was recognized as one of the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Forty Under 40.
Titles & Appointments
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
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