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Saul Rodriguez, M5G

saul-rodriguez@uiowa.edu


MSTP Learning Community:  McCowen

Admitted Advanced Standing:  July 1, 2020

Matriculation to CCOM:  2018

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Mentor:

Alex Bassuk, MD, PhD

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I am currenly working on developing novel therapies for temporal lobe epilepsy in a  kainic acid-induced model of epilepsy. The injury creates neurological changes that promote the production of proinflammatory cytokines which result in free radicals products, neurodegeneration, and gliosis. Together they create an overarching neuroinflammation that promotes the development of epilepsy. By attenuating this neuroinflammation, my hope is to prevent the progression of epilepsy altogether.

Education:

2014 - BS, Pharmaceutical Sciences - University of California - Irvine

Awards:

2022 - Best Poster Presentation in the Graduate Student & Postdoctoral Fellow category, UI Stead Family Department of Pediatrics Research Day, 5/9/2022

Publications:

ORCiD:  0000-0003-3821-2167