Research Fellow
Weill Cornell Medicine
Maria Cristina Riascos is an M.D. and aspiring pathology resident originally from Venezuela. She graduated from Venezuela’s Central University in 2018 and relocated to the US to pursue further training. She became a U.S.-licensed M.D. and then developed special interest in clinical, translational and basic science research. As a member of both the Radiology (Jin Lab) and Surgery (Fahey Lab) research teams at Weill Cornell, Dr. Riascos continues to expand her knowledge on pathology and genomic profiling of Papillary and Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer and is currently working on the design of animal tumor models for the development of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies for various cancer types.