Research

Our main research focus is in two fields of significant biomedical relevance:

Apoptosis

Nerve regeneration

We would like to acknowledge our previous and current sources of funding: NIH NIGMS MBRS-SCORE grant S06 GM008107, NIH NIGMS MBRS SCORE grant SC3 GM083732, NIH NIGMS MBRS SCORE SC3 grant GM109785, Welch Foundation grant AC-0006, and several research awards from Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

We have had the privilege to have a group of excellent scientists as our collaborators and scientific advisors, and we would like to extend our gratitude to all of them. Among our previous and current collaborators and scientific advisors, we especially thank: Dr. Enrique Massa, Dr. Sajid Bashir, Dr. Louise Liu, and Dr. Rudi Bohm, from Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Dr. Dai Lu, from Texas A&M Health Science Center; Dr. Sumana Datta, Dr. Mark Zoran, and Dr. Arne Lekven, from Texas A&M University (at College Station); Dr. Luis Del Peso, from the "Universdad Autónoma de Madrid"; Dr. Michael Uhler, Dr. Bernard Agranoff, and Dr. Gabriel Núñez, from the University of Michigan.

We have also worked on other research fields:

Cyanobacteria metabolism, plant development, yeast metabolism, oncogenes and cancer, cell signaling, biotechnology, bacteriology, nanotechnology