Miguel Garcia-Diaz, PhD is the Interim Vice President for Research and the Operations Manager for the SUNY Research Foundation. He 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, in 2007, he was appointed as Assistant Professor in the Renaissance School of Medicine’s Department of Pharmacological Sciences where he is currently a Professor. Prior to his appointment as Interim VPR, he served in various roles including Graduate Program Director for the Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology PhD program as an Associate Dean in Stony Brook’s Graduate School and as Interim Associate Vice President for Research.

Miguel 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 is firmly committed to diversity and access, and has been dedicated to developing the next generation of researchers in biomedical, behavioral and clinical research, directing the T32-funded Training Program in Pharmacological Sciences and co-directing Stony Brook's NIH-funded IRACDA Training Program.