Uri Nimrod Ramírez Jarquín

Dr. Uri Nimrod Ramírez Jarquín, a Mexican scientist, joined the Subramaniam Lab in February 2018 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. He received his PhD in Biomedical Science from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where he studied the mechanisms of motor neuron degeneration caused by excitotoxicity in the lumbar spinal cord of rats in vivo, as well as the involvement of inhibitory systems that were blocked in the spinal cord. In the Subramaniam lab, he explored mTOR pathway components in motor abnormalities of the brain's striatum. He also focused on characterizing the striatal mitochondrial changes caused by 3-Nitropropionic acid therapy, protein transfer between neurons in vivo, and their relationship to the Rhes proteins. He is currently a faculty member at the Departamento de Farmacología, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez in Mexico City.