Northwestern University
Chicago, United States
Víctor Andrés Arrieta González is a native from Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico. He enrolled in the first M.D./Ph.D. program of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. During his medical and scientific training, Víctor Arrieta had clinical rotations in Mexico City and Graz, Austria. He worked in different laboratories in Mexico and the USA, including the laboratory of Dr. David Potter at the University of Minnesota and the Neuro-Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute. Following his MD graduation, he completed his Ph.D. project at the laboratory of Dr. Adam Sonabend at Northwestern University in Chicago, USA. Currently, Víctor works as a postdoctoral fellow and is pursuing a master's in biomedical informatics at Northwestern University. He has a translational perspective that includes studies of immunotherapies for GBM patients, DNA replication stress as a mechanism of anticancer therapies for gliomas, and neurosurgical strategies to deliver therapies into the brain. Víctor's ultimate goal is to become a neurosurgeon and he has applied for a neurosurgery residency in the United States.