Juan A. Martínez Rivera, PhD
Title: Research ScientistEducation :2002 Ph.D. (Biochemistry) University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1993 MS (Physiology and Biophysics), Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, New York
1990 BS (Biology-Pre-med) College of Arts and Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LouisianaProfessional Memberships

National Neurotrauma Society

Sigma Xi, scientific honor society

Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

Publications

1. Banerjee DK, Baksi K and Martínez JA (2007) Significance of Protein N-glycosylation in Breast Tumor Angiogenesis. In: Angiogenesis: Basic Science and Clinical Applications (Eds. Maragaudakis, M.E. and Papadimitriou, E.). Research Signpost, Trivandrum, India (In Press).
2. Juan A. Martínez, José J. Tavárez, Caroline M. Oliveira, and Dipak K. Banerjee (2006). Potentiation of Angiogenic Switch in Capillary Endothelial Cells by cAMP: A Cross-Talk between Up-regulated LLO Biosynthesis and the HSP-70 Expression System. Glycoconjugate Journal, 23(3-4): 209-220.
3. Dipak K. Banerjee, Elena A. Carrasquillo, Patsy Hughey, John S. Schutzbach, Juan A. Martínez and Krishna Baksi (2005). In Vitro Phosphorylation by cAMP-dependent Protein Kinase Up-regulates Recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mannosylphosphodolichol Synthase. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280(6): 4174-4181.
4. Juan A. Martinez, Ivette Torres Negron, Lilia A. Amigo, Rossely Roldan, Alba Mendez and Dipak K. Banerjee (2000). Tunicamycin inhibits capillary endothelial cell proliferation by inducing apoptosis. Targeting dolichol pathway for generation of new anti-angiogenic therapeutics. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 476: 197-208.
5. Juan A. Martinez, Ivette Torres-Negron, Lilia A. Amigo and Dipak K. Banerjee (1999). Expression of Glc3Man9GlcNAc2-PP-Dol is a prerequisite for capillary endothelial cell proliferation. Cellular and Molecular Biology (France) 45(1): 137-152.
6. Dipak K. Banerjee and Juan A. Martinez (1998). Microvascular Endothelial Cells from Adrenal Medulla-A model for in vitro angiogenesis. In Angiogenesis: Models, Modulators and Clinical Applications. Ed. Maragoudakis, Plenum Press, New York, USA. pp. 7-18.