Welcome to my Academic Portfolio.

Please, let me introduce myself: Born and raised in Santiago (Chile). As a child, I spent hours playing around with pieces of toys -and drumming gear at a later age- just to understand how they work (I lost so many parts, of course). As a result, I am now a scientist who decided to move to Canada seven years ago to advance my career. Here, I investigate the molecular “scars” that the environment and other agents leave in our genome and their role in driving disease. To this end, I use sequencing technologies to understand the damage occurring at genome and epigenome levels and their biological consequences. I envision my research contributing to identifying personalized strategies to prevent and manage human diseases, based on individuals’ molecular features.

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I am a scientist and entrepreneur. While completing my Ph.D. in Chile, I pioneer the discovery of genomic alterations occurring in people exposed to arsenic, which resulted in a long-standing collaboration with the British Columbia Cancer Research Centre (BCCRC) in Vancouver, Canada. After that, I partnered up with a former Chilean Government officer to start a consultancy firm (Plataforma360), helping Institutions such as the National Institute of Intellectual Property, amongst others. As science is in the core for my professional development, I didn’t hesitate on accepting a postdoctoral fellow position at the BCCRC. Here, my proudest achievement has been to whiteness how the platform I developed for the analysis of NGS-based projects has supported more than 10 projects and grant applications, and how the team I have trained is now independently leading their projects. Throughout these years, I have also advanced my career as a researcher investigating genomics and human disease. Now, I’m pursuing my next professional challenge: putting my research at disposal of impacting health on vulnerable populations.

An ErbB2 splice variant lacking exon 16 drives lung carcinoma

Arlan Walsh , Chen Ling , Harvey W Smith , Dongmei Zuo , Lei Yang , Victor D Martinez , Ethan S. Sokol , Dean C Pavlick , Garett M. Frampton , Juliann Chmielecki , William W Lockwood , William J Muller (corr-auth)

Submitted to: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Status: Under Review (Reviewers’ report received)

Discovery of 154 novel miRNAs in mesothelioma and their potential as tissue of origin markers

Victor D. Martinez, Christine Anderson, Erin A. Marshall, Kevin W. Ng, Brenda C. Minatel, Adam P. Sage, Katey S.S. Enfield, Zhaolin Xu and Wan L. Lam

Submitted to: The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (AJRCCM)

Status: Under Review (Reviewers’ report received)

Teaching experience in Canada

Teaching experience abroad

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