Paola Carolina Valenzuela-Léon, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow

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Education:

Ph.D., Molecular Biomedicine, Center for Research and Advanced Studies, Mexico

Languages Spoken: Spanish
Portrait of Paola Valenzuela Leon, Ph.D.

Biography

My work is focused on characterizing and understanding the mechanism of action of pharmacologically active molecules from saliva of blood-feeding arthropods (mosquitoes, sand flies, black flies) and their relevance in blood feeding and pathogen transmission.