UCLA
Los Angeles, United States
My name is Elizabeth Fernandez, I am a PhD candidate in David Nathanson's lab in the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharamacology at UCLA. I completed my B.S. at the University of Arizona studying Neuroscience and Cognitive Science and Molecular and Cellular Biology where I worked with Dr. Theodore Trouard and helped develop a method of opening up the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) using microbubbles and focused ultrasound. In the following year I worked with Dr. William Banks studying the effects of inflammation on the BBB. In the Nathanson Lab, I am currently investigating the molecular signaling pathways that promote resistance to cell death in glioblastoma to better understand how various stresses shift the apoptotic dynamics in genetically heterogeneous tumors.