Mayo Clinic
Rochester, United States
Cecile Riviere-Cazaux, BS, is a third-year MSTP student at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota. As an aspiring neurosurgeon-scientist, she is passionate about working in partnership with patients and multidisciplinary colleagues to symbiotically integrate the operating room, lab, and clinic into a powerful pipeline for individualized therapeutic discovery. She is interested in leveraging access to the brain to investigate and manipulate gliomas in their natural environment, in addition to searching for pharmacodynamic biomarkers of therapeutic resistance and efficacy to catalyze unprecedented opportunities toward finally eradicating gliomas. With an additional background in learning and memory research, she foresees great promise in collaboratively taking advantage of interactive access to the human brain, not only to overcome gliomas, but also to unravel the intricacies of neurological diseases more broadly—including neurodegenerative maladies afflicting our aging population.