LIIGH-UNAM

LIIGH UNAM

Intranet
+52 (442) 1 92 62 31 +52 (555) 5 23 43 31 cmolina@liigh.unam.mx
unam, liigh

Group

Cancer Genomics and Bioinformatics

Dr. Christian Molina-Aguilar

Staff Technical Support

Dr. Christian Molina Aguilar is a biologist with a PhD in biomedical sciences from UNAM. He currently works as an academic technician at the Institute. He has experience in laboratory techniques such as, cell culture, handling and care of laboratory mice and rats, PDX models of melanoma, histology, and molecular biology techniques. Dr. Molina also works as a wet lab´s projects manager.

He is interested in animal models of liver diseases such as MASLD, fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular cancer, as well as in the study of the epistatic relationship between genes associated with the induction of liver pathologies and genes with protective effects against damage.

Articles

2026

LIIGH, research, mammoths, palaeogenomics

Ancient mammoth DNA from Mexico reveals an unexpected lineage—and a more complex evolutionary story

A new study in Science, led by LIIGH researchers, has recovered mitochondrial genomes from..

02-01-2026

Read more

People

unam, liigh

PRUEBA DE ALUMNO CON IMAGEN PRUEBA DE ALUMNO CON IMAGEN PRUEBA DE ALUMNO CON IMAGEN

..

Read more
unam, liigh

Dr. Federico Sánchez Quinto

Federico is part of the first cohort of the BSc degree in Genomic Sciences from UNAM (Nati..

Read more
unam, liigh

Undergrad Yael Daniel Hernández González

I am a Genomic Sciences student at UNAM (ENES Juriquilla) interested in systems biology an..

Read more
unam, liigh

PhD Student Walter Nicolas Ortega

I am a PhD candidate at Pop-Evo-Gen Lab. My research focuses on paleogenomics and populati..

Read more