VACA PANIAGUA FELIPE
Ubication:
Laboratory 13 UBIMED and National Laboratory in Health: Molecular Diagnosis and Environmental Impact on Chronic Degenerative Diseases.
Contact:
Phone: 5623 1333 Ext. 39788
Email: felipe.vaca@iztacala.unam.mx
Information:
Research Lines
- Integrative Genomics, Susceptibility, and Molecular Biology of Cancer.
- Hereditary Breast Cancer Genetics.
- Advanced Non-Invasive Detection and Molecular Characterization of Solid and Liquid Neoplasms.
- Microbial Genomics of Infectious Diseases.
Objectives
- Identify molecular prognostic, predictive, and monitoring biomarkers. Identification of early detection markers.
- Describe genetic alterations in patients with hereditary breast cancer.
- Characterize molecular programs and signatures of epithelial neoplasms and define their clinical impact. Develop and validate new (non-invasive) molecular methods for biomarker analysis.
- Define molecular and genomic markers of clinical value in infectious diseases.
Methodology
High-throughput parallel sequencing, microarray methodologies, molecular and cellular biology techniques, bioinformatics analysis methods, and statistical methods for genetic epidemiology.
Work Groups
- LACAM Consortium: Latin American Hereditary Breast Cancer Study. Participants: 16 academic and healthcare institutions in Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, and Peru.
- PRECAMA Study Group: Breast Cancer in Premenopausal Women. Participants: 15 institutions from Costa Rica, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, the United States, and France.
- Academic Group for the Study of Colon Cancer at the Biomedicine Unit, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, UNAM.