Professional Development

Certification

  • Chosen as a representative from the Department of Biochemistry to the University Promotions Committee.  (06/2016)

Seminars and Conferences

  • 10th Annual Research Symposium, Research in our laboratory presented during the summer student research program at Loma Linda University. The focus of the project was to   (08/2022)
  • Discussant in the National Minority Health Month Webinar Series, "Chronic Diseases Health Disparities." (04/2021)
  • Didactic lectures - Course CMBL 502 Molecular Biology-Graduate, 10 hours focused on understanding the nature and size of the eukaryotic genome, its packaging into the nucleus and the replication of genomic, mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA. (10/2004)

Special Projects

  • Initiation of an entirely new field of scientific inquiry and research, development of a mucosal vaccine for the beta corona virus SARS-CoV-2. (01/2020 - Present)
  • Studies in the area of cancer biology lead to the publication of several manuscripts," Peritoneal carcinomatosis in gastric cancer: are Hispanics at higher risk?" Annals of Surgical Oncology and "Gastric Cancer Peritoneal Carcinomatosis Risk Score" Journal of Surgical Oncology. (06/2019 - 06/2020)
  • Published several manuscripts on the application of cholera toxin B subunit as a mucosal adjuvant for understanding the mechanism of immunological tolerance."Lipopolysaccharide  enhances CTB-Insulin  induced tolerance in human dendritic cells" (Cellular Immunology), Cholera toxin B subunit-autoantigen treated human dendritic cells inhigit pro-inflammatory T cell development" (Journal of Clinical and Molecular Medicine). (04/2019 - 12/2018)
  • Published manuscripts on Rheumatoid Arthritis and fatty acid induction of inflammation. "Predicting methotrexate response in rheumatoid arthritis patients" (Inflammo-Pharmacology). "Palmitic acid is a toll-like receptor 4 ligand that induces human dendritic cell secretion of proinflammatory cytokines" (Plos ONE).  (10/2017 - 12/2018)