The Pew Charitable Trusts at this time introduced the 2023 class members of the Pew Latin American Fellows Program within the Biomedical Sciences.
These 10 postdoctoral fellows from seven Latin American countries-;Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay-;will obtain two years of funding to conduct analysis in laboratories all through america. The fellows will work beneath the mentorship of outstanding biomedical scientists, together with an alum of the Pew Students Program within the Biomedical Sciences.
Scientific change throughout international locations and backgrounds is essential to creating groundbreaking discoveries. That is why Pew is happy to assist such a formidable cohort from Latin America who will proceed this legacy of advancing world biomedical science.”
Susan Okay. Urahn, Pew’s President and CEO
Fellows who select to return to Latin America to launch their very own analysis labs will obtain further funding from Pew. Roughly 70% of previous fellows have pursued this path, which has helped construct a extra strong biomedical analysis neighborhood in Latin America.
Scientists within the 2023 class will discover a spread of analysis pursuits, together with whether or not diet-induced irritation might result in childhood weight problems, how publicity to toxins and different stimuli reprogram stem cells, and what organic mechanisms contribute to the event of most cancers and cancer-related issues.
“This yr’s class brings collectively a neighborhood of Latin American scientists with excellent expertise,” mentioned Eva Nogales, Ph.D., distinguished professor within the division of biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology on the College of California, Berkeley, and chair of this system’s nationwide advisory committee. “Their analysis pursuits, coupled with the coaching they will obtain in main U.S. labs, will assist break new floor in enhancing human well being all over the world.”
The 2023 Pew Latin American fellows and their U.S. mentors are:
Anai Campos Contreras, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Thomas F. MartÃnez, Ph.D.
College of California, Irvine
Anai Campos Contreras, Ph.D., will examine microproteins current in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, one of many deadliest cancers.
MatÃas Fabregat, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Andrea Galmozzi, Ph.D.
College of Wisconsin-Madison
MatÃas Fabregat, Ph.D., will examine how most cancers cells induce cachexia-;extreme weight reduction with muscle and fats losing.
Ayelen Lizarraga, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Sebastian Pott, Ph.D.
College of Chicago
Ayelen Lizarraga, Ph.D., will unravel how publicity to toxins, allergens, and different environmental stimuli reprogram stem cells that reside in several tissues.
MarÃa Belén Machin, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Raul Mostoslavsky, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts Normal Hospital, Harvard Medical Faculty
MarÃa Belén Machin, Ph.D., will discover the distinctive metabolic options of metastatic most cancers cells.
Daniel Núñez-León, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Cheng-Ming Chuong, M.D., Ph.D.
College of Southern California
Daniel Núñez-León, Ph.D., will examine how totally different birds produce distinctive and various facial options, which may result in understanding craniofacial situations in individuals.
Enrique OlguÃn-MartÃnez, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Jorge Henao-Mejia, M.D., Ph.D., 2017 Pew biomedical scholar
College of Pennsylvania
Enrique OlguÃn-MartÃnez, Ph.D., will discover how diet-induced irritation promotes childhood weight problems.
Luiza de Oliveira Saad, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Peter Reddien, Ph.D.
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Analysis
Luiza de Oliveira Saad, Ph.D., will discover the mechanisms that information regeneration in a shell-less mollusk known as a nudibranch.
Rebeca de Paiva Fróes Rocha, Ph.D.
Laboratories of Michael Rosenblum, M.D., Ph.D., and Amar Nijagal, M.D.
College of California, San Francisco
Rebeca de Paiva Fróes Rocha, Ph.D., will discover the position that immune cells play in selling the event of pediatric liver most cancers.
Leda Restrepo, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Elena Gallo MacFarlane, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins College
Leda Restrepo, Ph.D., will assess how adjustments within the exercise of a gene regulator known as MEG3 contributes to the danger of aortic aneurysms.
Mario Alberto Ynga Durand, M.D., Ph.D.
Laboratory of Marc E. Rothenberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Cincinnati Youngsters’s Hospital Medical Middle
Mario Alberto Ynga Durand, M.D., Ph.D., will discover how immune-cell infiltration results in eosinophilic esophagitis.
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