Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Víctor Andrés Arrieta González is a native from Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico. He was enrolled in the first MD/PhD program of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). During his medical and scientific training, Víctor Arrieta has done clinical rotations in different hospitals in Mexico City and at the Medical University of Graz, Austria. He has worked in different laboratories in Mexico and the USA, including the laboratory of Dr David Potter at the Department of Hematology and Oncology of the University of Minnesota, and in the Neuro-Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute under the mentorship of Dr Mark Gilbert and Dr Chunzhang Yang. Following the acquisition of his MD, he completed his PhD project at the laboratory of Dr Adam Sonabend at Northwestern University in Chicago, USA. Currently, Víctor works as a postdoctoral scientist at the Department of Neurosurgery of Northwestern University. He has a translational perspective that includes studies of immunotherapies for GBM patients, DNA replication stress as a mechanism of anticancer therapies for gliomas, and neurosurgical strategies to deliver therapies into the brain such as doxorubicin to enhance the efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade. Víctor is looking to apply to a neurosurgery residency in the United States after completion of his postdoctoral research. In his free time, he likes to practice yoga and dance Cuban salsa.
Sunday, April 23, 2023
3:56pm – 4:00pm PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose