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What is your name?
Aquiles R. Ocaña-Guzman
What is your current position?
Postdoctoral Fellow
Which institute and country do you work in?
School of Public Health, Univertisty of Texas at Houston Center (UT-Health Houston)
What is your home country?
Mexico
What are your research interests?
Immunology, Tuberculosis, Immune regulation
Tell us about yourself and your research interests:
As a Medical Sciences Researcher at the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Mexico City, I am part of the Integrative Immunology Laboratory, focusing on immunity in respiratory infectious diseases (Tuberculosis, COVID-19, HIV) and non-infectious pathologies (hypersensitivity pneumonitis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis). I hold a Bachelor’s in Pharmaceutical Biological Chemistry from Metropolitan Autonomous University and a Master’s and PhD in Biological Sciences from UNAM, specializing in Biomedicine and immune regulation in human cells.
I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), where my research explores factors that affect the immune response to tuberculosis, including diabetes, oxidative stress, and aging. My passion for teaching and my commitment to academic excellence drive me to support and mentor the next generation of scientists and physicians form UNAM and Anahuac University in Mexico, fostering innovation in the classroom and laboratory.
In 2015, I received the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Young Investigator Award for my work on the inhibitory receptor TIM-3 in innate immune cells. I am also a member of the Mexican Society of Immunology and the Mexican Network for Tuberculosis Research.
What are your online profiles?
LinkedIn: Ranferi Ocana Guzman
ResearchGate: Ranferi Ocana
Immunology Keywords:
Immune-regulation, TB-Infection, Chronic-activation
