Associate Professor
University of British Columbia / BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Dan Luciani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of British Columbia and an Investigator in the Diabetes Group at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) in Vancouver. He earned a master’s degree in applied physics engineering from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and then completed PhD training at DTU that introduced him to pancreatic beta cell biology. Dr. Luciani moved to Canada to continue exploring beta cell life and death at UBC—first as a postdoctoral fellow, and later as faculty recognized by a Career Development Award from Breakthrough T1D (then JDRF). His current research—funded by Diabetes Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and Breakthrough T1D—focuses on the mechanisms that enable beta cells to adapt to stress and how these processes fail in diabetes and under transplantation-relevant conditions.
Disclosure(s): Breakthrough T1D: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); CIHR: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Diabetes Canada: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
DCS5 - Pancreatic Islet Stress
Thursday, November 27, 2025
10:30 - 11:45 Toronto