Oscar Gonzalez-Perez, Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Philosophy is Professor of Neuroscience in the School of Psychology at the University of Colima, Mexico.
Education
Gonzalez-Perez received his medical degree from then Medicine School at the University of Colima and then obtained Master’s and Doctoral degrees in physiology in the Centro de Investigaciones Biomedicas at that university. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in developmental and stem cell biology in the laboratory of Arturo Alvarez-Buylla at University of California, San Francisco.
Career
He also is honorary professor of Neuroscience in the Doctorado en Ciencias Biomedicas at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, and an invited professor of Neuroscience and Cellular Medicine in the Brain Tumor Stem Cell Laboratory of Doctor Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He focuses on the study of the oligodendrocyte generation in the subventricular zona, as well as in the role of adult neural stem cells in regenerative processes to repair damaged brain tissue. Gonzalez-Perez conducts numerous research efforts on elucidating the role of stem cells in the origin of brain tumors and the potential role stem cells can play in fighting brain cancer and regaining neurological function in the Neurosurgery Brain Tumor Stem Cell Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University.
Membership
He is also member of several editorial boards: Neuroimmunology and Neuroinflammation, Journal of Neurology and Epidemiology, American Journal of Stem Cells, and Clinical Immunology & Research. He is a member of the Academia Nacional de Medicina de Mexico (The National Academy of Medicine in Mexico), the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (Mexican Academy of Sciences) and the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores de Mexico (National System of Mexican Researchers).