Luisa Rojas Valencia, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Neurological Surgery
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Data Science Fellowship, University of Arizona, 2022-2023
• Valley Research Partneship Grant, University of Arizona, 2021-2022
• Fulbright Scholarship for doctorate studies, Fulbright Colombia-MinCiencias, 2018-2023

Education & Training

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• PhD Clinical and Translational Sciences University of Arizona 01/2024
• MS Biomedical Sciences University of Antioquia 11/2017
• BS Biology University of Tolima 06/2014

Interests

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• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Gut microbiome
• Inflammation - Neuroinflammation

Publications (4)

Top publication keywords:
Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL PositiveChelating AgentsDrug Screening Assays, AntitumorEthylenediaminesReactive Oxygen SpeciesPrenatal Exposure Delayed EffectsSex CharacteristicsRecovery of FunctionGender IdentityApoptosisSignal TransductionK562 CellsZincAntineoplastic AgentsBrain Injuries, Traumatic

• Colony-Stimulating Factor-1 Receptor Inhibition Transiently Attenuated the Peripheral Immune Response to Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury.
  Neurotrauma reports 2023 Giordano KR, Saber M, Green TRF, Rojas-Valencia LM, Ortiz JB, Murphy SM, Lifshitz J, Rowe RK
• Mice Born to Mothers with Gravida Traumatic Brain Injury Have Distorted Brain Circuitry and Altered Immune Responses.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2021 Saber M, Ortiz JB, Rojas Valencia LM, Ma X, Tallent BR, Adelson PD, Rowe RK, Qiu S, Lifshitz J
• Beyond Binary: Influence of Sex and Gender on Outcome after Traumatic Brain Injury.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2020 Giordano KR, Rojas-Valencia LM, Bhargava V, Lifshitz J
• Metal chelator TPEN selectively induces apoptosis in K562 cells through reactive oxygen species signaling mechanism: implications for chronic myeloid leukemia.
  Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine 2017 Rojas-Valencia L, Velez-Pardo C, Jimenez-Del-Rio M