Rate My Professor Valeria Mas

Dr. Mas earned a BS in biology from the National University of Cordoba, Argentina, master's degrees in immunology and clinical biochemistry, and a PhD in biochemistry from the National University of San Luis, Argentina. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University and joined its faculty as an Assistant Professor. She later served as tenured Associate Professor of Research Surgery at the University of Virginia, directing the Molecular Transplant Research Laboratory and Translational Genomics Transplant Laboratory. Prior to her 2020 recruitment to the University of Maryland, she founded and directed the Transplant Research Institute at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center as Endowed Professor of Transplant Research and Professor of Surgery. Dr. Mas has received the International Liver Transplantation Rising Star Award, University of Virginia School of Medicine Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research, and American Society of Transplantation Basic Science Investigator Award. A Fellow of the American Society of Transplantation, she has led committees for the International Liver Transplant Society, served as associate editor for Transplantation, Renal Pharmacology, and the American Journal of Transplantation, and published more than 175 papers and abstracts with NIH, foundation, and industry funding.