CARDENAS AGUAYO, MARIA DEL CARMEN

Dr. Maria-del-Carmen Cardenas-Aguayo, has a Master's degree and a Ph.D. In Molecular Biomedicine from CINVESTAV-IPN. She held an Assistant Research scientist Position at the Nathan Kline Institute, in Orangeburg NY from 2006 to 2008, and at the “NYS Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities”, in Staten Island, NY from 2008 to 2011. Then She was a Visiting Professor at CINVESTAV-IPN from 2011 to 2016. Currently, she has a Full-time Professor position at the Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, with teaching seniority at UNAM of 20 years. She also taught Physiology at the University of “Staten Island”, NY, USA for two years (2009 to 2011). She is a mentor of the AFINES program (Support and Promotion of Student Research) and of postgraduate students from both UNAM and CINVESTAV: master's, doctorate in sciences, and postdoctoral levels. She recently received the Matias Romero Award for Joint Research (the University of Texas, at Austin – Mexico, 2019-2020). Her laboratory (Cellular Reprogramming and Chronic-degenerative Diseases Laboratory) is dedicated to investigating the molecular mechanisms involved in neurodegeneration and neurodevelopment and its relationship with cellular stress and neuronal differentiation. She is a National Researcher Level I and PRIDE C and has 38 international scientific publications in indexed and peer-reviewed journals.