Carolina is a Post-doctoral Fellow with the Kiessling lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Education
Ph.D., Physiology, University of Minnesota, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, 2021
Thesis: Unraveling the Mechanisms Underlining Fukutin-Related Protein Pathogenesis using Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Myotubes
Advisor: Rita Perlingeiro, Ph.D.
M.S., Stem Cell Biology, University of Minnesota, 2014
B.S., Biology, University of Costa Rica, 2012
Awards
- Dr. Marvin and Hadassah Bacaner Research Award for Physiology (2021)
- Beatrice Z. Milne and Theodore Brandenburg Award (2021)
- Alan Hemingway Scholarship for excellence in academic performance (2016)