Aurora Esquela Kerscher
Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA
Biography
Aurora Esquela-Kerscher completed her MS in Biotechnology and PhD in Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She conducted a Post-doctoral Fellowship in Frank Slack’s laboratory at Yale University where she began her studies on the role of microRNAs during development and disease. She is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology and Member of the Leroy T Canoles Jr. Cancer Research Center at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. Her lab aims to develop novel diagnostic and therapeutic targets for aggressive forms of prostate cancer.