Gonzalo Pinero, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow

Gonzalo received his degree in Biochemistry from Mar del Plata University in Argentina. He received a Ph.D. fellowship from the Argentinian National Scientific and Technical Research Council and obtained his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Buenos Aires University. As part of his postgraduate training, he visited The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami, supported by a Fullbrigth award. He has vast experience in teaching at different education levels. Gonzalo has studied the interaction between the immune system and the peripheral nervous system combining in vivo and in vitro approaches and various molecular biology techniques. Gonzalo is examining the role of tumor location and pediatric-specific histone mutations on the immune landscape of high-grade pediatric gliomas.
Funding Sources: Rally Foundation Fellow

Montserrat Puigdelloses Vallcorba, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow

Montserrat received her degree in Biomedicine at the University of Barcelona. She followed her studies by performing her master’s degree at Vall d’Hebrón Institut de Recerca – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (VHIR-UAB). She received a Ph.D. fellowship from the University of Navarra (ADA) and obtained her international Ph.D. at the University of Navarra. During her Ph.D., she was awarded a mobility grant to perform an internship at Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine. at Emory University in Atlanta. Her Ph.D. was focused on finding new therapeutic strategies for glioblastoma using immunovirotherapeutic approaches, including oncolytic viruses.
Currently, she is working on the interaction between mismatch repair genes (MMR genes) and the resistance to temozolomide treatment in glioblastoma using GEM models of brain tumors.