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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

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People

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Undergraduate Miguel Angel Flores Varela

I am a final-year student in the Bachelor’s Program in Genomic Sciences at UNAM, with a ..

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MD Alexis Steven García

MD in charge of the MEXPD project, actively involved in collaboration with medical special..

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PhD. Student Laura Carrillo Olivas

My PhD thesis project focuses on the integration of population genomics — including auto..

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Dra. Claudia Gonzaga-Jauregui

Dr. Gonzaga-Jauregui is the Principal Investigator of the Mendelian Genomics & Precision H..

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