Rodrigo Mora
Associate Professor, Faculty of Microbiology
University of Costa Rica
Rodrigo Mora conducted his PhD studies in the field of Programmed Cell Death in Cancer at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ, Heidelberg) and his first postdoctoral training in Systems Biology at the Bioquant Center at the University of Heidelberg. Currently he holds the position of Associate Professor within the Faculty of Microbiology and the Masters Program in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at the University of Costa Rica. Over the past five years he has established his own research group, Systems Biology of Personalized Therapy, and has supervised several PhD, Masters and undergraduate students in both biological and computational fields. His research interests include the systems biology of personalised cancer treatment. His team is currently performing an in vitro test of chemosensitivity on tumors of breast cancer patients. The remaining tumor material is used for sequencing studies looking for genomic and transcriptomic markers of resistance or sensitivity to chemotherapy, and for other basic research on cancer biology, especially the role of miRNA and lncRNAs. His team is also developing molecular sensors, including ones to detect chemotherapy resistance at the single cell level based on sphingolipid metabolism and autophagy, and studying Dengue virus pathogenesis and Dengue virus induced cellular alterations.
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