Saul Rodriguez, M4
MSTP Learning Community: McCowen
Admitted Advanced Standing: July 1, 2020
Matriculation to CCOM: 2018
Graduate Program:
Mentor:
Alex Bassuk, MD, PhD
Bassuk Lab
I am currently working on developing novel therapies for temporal lobe epilepsy in a kainic acid-induced model of epilepsy. The injury creates neurological changes that promote the production of proinflammatory cytokines which result in free radicals' products, neurodegeneration, and gliosis. Together they create an overarching neuroinflammation that promotes the development of epilepsy. By attenuating this neuroinflammation, my hope is to prevent the progression of epilepsy altogether.
Education:
2014 - BS, Pharmaceutical Sciences - University of California - Irvine
Awards:
2022 - Best Poster Presentation in the Graduate Student & Postdoctoral Fellow category, UI Stead Family Department of Pediatrics Research Day, 5/9/2022
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