I am a senior Biomedical Engineering student from Panama 🇵🇦 with a strong interest in genomics, bioinformatics, and biological engineering. Before choosing biomedical engineering, I originally wanted to study genetic engineering, I was already fascinated by genes, inheritance, and how small molecular changes can shape entire biological systems.

My current research explores transcriptomic changes at the gene expression level in gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), focusing on how cancer cells adapt to targeted therapies. Through this work, I have become especially interested in how gene expression patterns can reveal early signs of cellular adaptation and resistance.

In parallel, I have also worked on epidemiological research analyzing dengue incidence patterns, where I explored how data and biological context can be combined to understand disease dynamics at a population level.

What excites me most is the possibility of designing biological and computational tools that help us read molecular and epidemiological signals before they fully manifest as clinical or public health outcomes. I see biology not just as something to observe, but as something we can interrogate, engineer, and learn from.

In HTGAA, I am excited to explore how biological engineering can be used to better understand complex disease systems and to think creatively about how living systems can be grown, measured, and redesigned.

Panama — the place i call home <3.