Luis Sobrevia

Dr. Luis Sobrevia is a Cellular and Molecular Physiology professor at the Department of Obstetrics in the Faculty of Medicine at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) in Chile. He is also Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Queensland in Australia, at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Universidad de Sevilla in Spain, and the Medical School (Faculty of Medicine) of the São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil, and visiting professor of Pathology and Medical Biology at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. 

Professor Sobrevia is Fellow of The Physiological Society (FTPS) in the UK, Fellow of the International Union of Physiological Science (FIUPS), Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK), member of the Latin America Academy of Sciences (ACAL), and chair of the Regional Focal Point for Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Science Council. 

His current research focuses on the role of nucleosides and amino acids in abnormal foetal endothelial and vascular function in gestational diabesity, gestational diabetes mellitus, preeclampsia, and intrauterine growth restriction.

Luis Sobrevia joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished University Professor in Molecular Physiology and Medicine for the Institute for Obesity Research and the School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

• Ph.D. Physiology and Medical Sciences with postdoctoral training in vascular physiology, King’s College London, University of London
• M.Sc. Physiological Sciences, Universidad de Concepción
• B.Sc. Hons. Biology and Natural Sciences, Universidad del Bío-Bío