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Cancer Genomics and Bioinformatics

Dr. Christian Molina-Aguilar

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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

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People

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Research stay Leonardo Daniel González López

Leonardo is currently an undergraduate student enrolled in the third semester of Genomic S..

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Undergraduate degree Alan Raymundo Izarraras Gómez

I am a PhD candidate and have a bachelors degree in genomic biotechnology. My main interes..

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Undergraduate Mónica Reyes Ramírez

I am an undergraduate student in the Genomic Sciences program at UNAM...

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Rebeca Jaimes Farca

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