Founder

Latina Scientist

I use all neccessary tools to discover biomarkers for human disease.

We now have the technology to identify disease biomarkers that can be used to revolutionize the way disease is treated and diagnosed. My research focus is clinical biomarker discovery. Clinical biomarkers are molecules which are altered in disease. In addition to allowing the better understanding of disease, the discovery of a clinical biomarker can be the first step in developing a new therapy, drug or cure. The importance of finding viable clinical biomarkers cannot be overstated.

2010 The Protection of Human Subjects, University of Nevada, Reno

2010 Research Ethics: A General Overview, University of Nevada, Reno

2010 Welfare of Laboratory Animals workshop, University of Nevada, Reno

2009 WAGE project train the trainer, University of Nevada, Reno

2007 Computer-based training course on the Protection of Human Research Subjects, NIH Office of Human Subjects Research

2006 Computer-based Clinical Research Training course, National Institutes of Health

2006 Working Safely with HIV and Other Bloodborne Pathogens in the Research Laboratory National Institutes of Health

2006 The Science of Sex and Gender in Human Health, National Institutes of Health/ Foundation for Advanced Education

2005 International Symposium on Cellular Therapy for the Treatment of Autoimmune Diseases: Basic Science & Clinical Studies, City of Hope National Medical Center

2005 Update & Controversies in High Risk Cancer Screening & Prevention: Evidence for Advice, City of Hope National Medical Center

2005 Aromatase Inhibitors and Breast Cancer Treatment, City of Hope National Medical Center

2004 An Update on Screening & Chemotherapy of Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, City of Hope National Medical Center & Beckman Research Institute

2004 Human Subjects Protection Training, City of Hope

2004 Advances in Liver directed Therapies for GI Cancers, City of Hope National Medical Center

2002 Making Sense of DNA/Protein Sequences, National Center for Biotechnology Information

2002 BLAST, National Center for Biotechnology Information

1999 Protein and Peptide Sequence Analysis by Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities

1998 Characterization of Proteins with Mass Spectrometry, American Chemical Society

1980-1986 Finance Specialist, U.S. Army Reserves

2007 Certificate of Appreciation, National Native American Youth initiative Summer Program

1999-2004 NIH Research Supplement for Minority Students

1999 Outstanding Performance, Bruker International Application Meeting

1992 Certificate of Appreciation, Career Beginnings Program

1988 National Hispanic Scholarship Fund

1987 GranD Summer Fellowship

1987 NCCHE Doctorate Fellowship

1986 Certificate of Appreciation for Academic Achievement, National Chicano Council for Higher Education

1985 MARC-HURT Fellowship, California State University, Los Angeles

1984 Academic Achievement in Chemistry, Cerritos Community College