Miguel Garcia-Diaz
Interim Vice President for Research
Miguel Garcia-Diaz was appointed Interim Vice President for Research (VPR), effective
July 15, 2023. As the university’s senior research officer, he provides oversight
for research administration, strategy, policy, technology transfer and economic development.
He also serves as the Operations Manager for the SUNY Research Foundation.
Garcia-Diaz oversees research development as Stony Brook’s Interim Associate Vice
President for Research and Deputy Operations Manager for the Research Foundation,
positions he was appointed to in 2022 following a long history as an accomplished
researcher and educator. He has served in various roles at Stony Brook, including
Associate Dean in the Graduate School and Graduate Program Director for the Molecular
and Cellular Pharmacology PhD program. He has also participated in several research
initiatives, including Facilitating Research Success and the Strategic Budget Initiative.
Garcia-Diaz received a BS in Biochemistry and a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology from the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid, Spain. Following completion of a
post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,
he was appointed as assistant professor in the Renaissance School of Medicine’s Department
of Pharmacological Sciences in 2007, where he is currently a professor.
Garcia-Diaz is a structural biologist who has focused his research—some of which takes
place at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)—on understanding how mitochondria use
their genome to build the different structures necessary for mammalian respiration.
He has been dedicated to developing the next generation of researchers in biomedical,
behavioral and clinical research, including students from groups underrepresented
in these fields of research. He has also shown excellent leadership and mentorship
qualities as the Director of the T32-funded Training Program in Pharmacological Sciences
and as Co-Director of the National Institute of Health’s IRACDA Training Program.
CONTACT:
Kathleen A. Green
Executive Asst. & VP Coordinator
Phone: 631.632.7932
Office of the VP for Research
S5422 Melville Library
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3365