University of California, Irvine
Irvine, United States
I am a neuroscience and glioblastoma researcher in the in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. I received my B.S. in Neuroscience and Physiology from the University of California, San Diego. While performing research as an undergraduate, I received the Ledell Family Endowed Research Scholarship and the Eureka! Biological Sciences Scholar to pursue research projects in the summer of 2014 and 2015, respectively. I co-authored four publications on topics ranging from age-related macular degeneration to learning. After graduating, I worked in academia and industry as a research associate, whereby I optimized and experimented with fluorescent in situ hybridization, automated immunohistochemistry devices and other experimental workflows. I started pursuing a Ph.D in the biosciences as part of the Cellular and Molecular Biosciences program at University of California, Irvine in the Fall of 2018 and was awarded the School of Biological Sciences Dean’s Graduate Fellowship and the UC Irvine Graduate Dean's Recruitment Fellowship for my early-career achievements.
Under the direction of Dr. Bota at the University of California and as part of a collaborative effort with Dr. Bhaskar Das at Mount Sinai, he is working on developing and testing pharmacological agents for treating Glioblastoma (GBM). With regards to this work, I am first-author on a neuro-oncology manuscript submission investigating the efficacy of a novel LonP1 inhibitor on glioblastoma. Additionally, I am co-author on two additional publications assessing the role of soluble adenylyl cyclase and a novel transciptomics fluorescence in situ hybridization technique using lifetime microscopy. I am also a member of the NIH T32-Training Program in Cancer Biology and Therapeutics (CBT).
My resent work has investigated the importance of LonP1 in Glioblastoma (GBM) disease progression.