University of California San Francisco
San francisco, United States
Hugo. A. Gonzalez Velozo. Ph.D.
Hugo is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and associate investigator in the Fundacion Ciencia y Vida institute (Santiago Chile). He completed a B.S. at the Universidad del Talca (Talca, Chile), a Ph.D. in Molecular Biosciences at Universidad Nacional Andres Bello (Santiago, Chile), and postdoctoral training at UCSF (San Francisco, USA).
Hugo's expertise in cancer and immunology has been developed for over fourteen years. He has led and collaborated on projects on cancer development, cancer metastasis, and tumor microenvironment. In his own research, he has concentrated on the molecular mechanisms involved in metastasis formation and tumor-immune interactions in the last step of the metastatic cascade. His major interest is in driving the field of cancer metastasis and tumor microenvironment forward technically and conceptually. Another is to determine insights from the tumor-immune interface that help to explain the progression from indolent metastases to clinically relevant tumors. His research has been characterized by innovation, thoroughness, and collaboration; combining diverse disciplines to collect multiple layers of information during his projects, such as cancer research, genomics, molecular biology, immunology, and computational biology approaches.