Deyanira Pacheco Tovar, MSc, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, UACB. School of Biological Sciences and School of Chemistry Sciences, Campus Universitario Siglo XXI, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Department of Immunology and Virology, Faculty of Biological Sciences
Professional Degrees
PhD Student, Universidad
Autónoma de Nuevo León, México, 2011-
Thesis: Suppression of the immune response by iRNA in Pemphigus
M.Sc, Universidad
Autónoma de Zacatecas, México, 2006–2008
Thesis: Blockade of caspase pathway in
Pemphigus.
Pharmaceutical
Chemist Biologists, Universidad
Autónoma de Zacatecas, México, 2000–2005
Thesis: Standardization of the technique for the RT-PCR in
situ analysis of tumor
markers in lung cancer
Research
Interests
Autoimmunity Diseases; pemphigus:
iRNA
Current
Research
Molecular study of autoimmune diseases.
Study of the pathophysiology of pemphigus.
Molecular diagnosis in hereditary diseases
Publications
Rivas-Calderon M,
Yamazaki-Nakashimada MA, Orozco-Covarrubias L, Durán-McKinster C, Pacheco-Tovar
D, Ávalos-Díaz E, Sáez-de-Ocariz M. Bronchiolitis Obliterans With
Anti-Epiplakin Antibodies in a Boy With Paraneoplastic Pemphigus. Pediatrics.
2022 Mar 1; 149(3): e2021052132. doi: 10.1542/peds.2021-052132. PMID: 35118492
María Guadalupe Pacheco Tovar. University degree in QFB (Chemist Pharmaceutical Biologist) in 2002. Completed master´s studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Unidad Académica Ciencias Biológicas in 2005. Ph.D. intern in the area of immunobiology at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas in 2011. Currently, teaching researcher at Unidad Académica de Ciencias Químicas, Unidad Académica de Odontología, Unidad Académica de Medicina Humana at Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas. Student advisor, researching in the area of autoimmunity diseases and autoinflammatory diseases. Member of the Cuerpo Académico UAZ-CA-5. Profile PRODEP in 2016. SNI candidate in 2014-2017. Collaborates on research projects and participates in indexed magazine publications.
Felipe de Jesús Torres Del Muro, MSc. Universidad
Autónoma de Zacatecas, Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, UACB.
Biological Sciences Faculty. Universidad autónoma de Nuevo León, Department of
Immunology and Virology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Professional Titles:
Doctoral Student, Universidad autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico, 2016. Thesis:
Protective effect of curcumin by modulation of apoptotic proteins (Bcl-2, Bax)
ví Wt1 in a murine model of doxorubicin-induced kidney disease. M. in C. Universidad
autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico, 2013–2015. Thesis: Modulation of the expression
of apoptosis proteins by siRNAs against WT1 in kidney tissue. Pharmaceutical Chemist Biologist, Universidad autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico, 2008–2011. Thesis: Fas -670 polymorphism in
patients with Lupic Nephritis. Current research: Molecular study of autoimmune diseases and cancer, molecular study and pathophysiology of kidney diseases, molecular diagnosis in autoimmune diseases. Recent publication: Bollain-Y-Goytia JJ, Torres-Del-Muro FD, Hernández-Martínez SP, Avalos-Díaz E,
Herrera-Esparza R. suPAR and WT1 modify the adhesion of podocytes and are
related to proteinuria in class IV lupus nephritis. J Transl Autoimmun. 2023
Oct 13; 7:100216. doi: 10.1016/j.jtauto.2023.100216. PMID: 37868110; PMCID:
PMC10587709.
Rafael Herrera Esparza. He obtained his medical degree in Mexico City at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), then completed postgraduate internship studies and the first year of internal medicine at the PEMEX Central Hospital in Mexico City, speciality: Rheumatology in the La Raza IMSS Medical Center in Mexico City; advanced studies in immunology at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, IPN. Clinical work in the Internal Medicine service, IMSS Zacatecas General Hospital. Scientific visitor at the Autoimmunity Department of the Central Laboratory of the Dutch Red Cross Blood Bank in Amsterdam. Postdoctoral fellow in clinical immunology at Johns Hopkins University. Scientific visitor at the Medical College of Wisconsin. PhD at Pacific Western University in Los Angeles CA. Former president of the Mexican College of Rheumatology. Former president of the Mexican Society of Immunology. Full member of the National Academy of Medicine (Mexico) and member of the SNI level 3. He has 80 indexed publications and his works have been cited more than 1,300 times. Professor at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico. Master's and doctoral thesis director. Founder of the Experimental Biology Research Center, UAZ. Member of the American Society for Cell Biology, the American Chemical Society and the Henry Kunkel Society. Professional interest in autoimmunity.
Esperanza Ávalos-Díaz. She earned her medical degree in the city of Zacatecas, Mexico at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas. Specialty Studies in Dermatology, Pascua Dermatological Center, SSA-UNAM. Immunodermatology studies at the University of Michigan. Postdoctoral fellow in clinical immunology at Johns Hopkins University. Scientific visitor at the Medical College of Wisconsin. PhD from Pacific Western University in Los Angeles, CA. Full member of the National Academy of Medicine (Mexico), member of the SNI level 1. Former Director of Research and Posgrade studies in Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas. Former secretary of health in Zacatecas, Mexico. She has 60 indexed publications and her works have been cited more than 1,100 times. Professor at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico. Director of master's and doctoral thesis. Founder of the Experimental Biology Research Center, UAZ. Certified by the Mexican Council of Dermatology. Member of the American Society of Cellular Biology, where she has been ambassador for Mexico, The Society for Investigative Dermatology, Member of the Mexican Society and Academy of Dermatology, Mexican Society of Immunology and the State Council of Bioethics in Zacatecas, Mexico. Professional interest in autoimmune blistering diseases.
