Dr. José Serna is the Medical Director of IVI Zaragoza where he combines his management duties with his medical practice. He obtained his M.D. degree in 1993 at the Hospital Militar Universitario del Ejercito del Aire, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. During his last year at school, he pursued his enthusiasm in biology and basic research and was enrolled in the Growth Factor Laboratory at the Developmental Biology Department at Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC) in Madrid. After competing medical school, he gained a predoctoral fellowship to investigate the role of insulin family of growth factors in embryo development. He then obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and moved forward in basic research obtaining a Marie Curie Post-doctoral Fellowship fulfilling simultaneously clinical training and basic research in the Pediatrics Department at St. Bartholomew Hospital in London.
MD | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1993) |
Fellowship | Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Madrid. (1998) |
PhD | Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1998) |
Postdoctoral | Dpt. Pediatrics. Saint Bartholomew Hospital. London (1999) |
SUD | Reproductive Medicine. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (2003) |
Residency | Fundación Jiménez Díaz. Madrid (2006) |