Name: Enrique Amaya

Position: The Healing Foundation Chair of Tissue Regeneration

Email: enrique.amaya@manchester.ac.uk

As an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina, Enrique studied the structure and function of centromeres in Saccharomyces cerevisiae under the supervision of Prof. Kerry Bloom. After graduating in 1986, he joined the University of California at San Francisco and studied the role of fibroblast growth factor in early Xenopus development in the laboratory of Prof. Marc Kirschner. In 1993, he joined the lab of Prof. Raymond Keller as a postdoc studying cell interactions patterning the vertebrate embryo. Enrique moved to the UK in 1996 to become a group leader at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute at Cambridge University, where his lab conducted research on the signals that organise the vertebrate embryo. In 2005 Enrique accepted the position of Healing Foundation Chair of Tissue Regeneration and set up the The Healing Foundation Centre at the University of Manchester in 2006, where his lab studies growth factor signalling, morphogenesis, wound healing and regeneration.