Paper 'Space Radiation Damage Rescued by Inhibition of Key Spaceflight Associated miRNAs' is under review at Nature Communications
Paper 'Countermeasures for cardiac fibrosis in space travel: It takes more than a towel for a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy' is under review at Nature npj Microgravity
Paper 'A Comprehensive SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 review, Part 2: Host Extracellular to Systemic Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Infection' has been accepted in the European Journal of Human Genetics
Paper 'Core mitochondrial genes are down-regulated during SARS-CoV-2 infection of rodent and human hosts' has been published in Science Translational Medicine
Paper 'Machine learning prediction of side effects for drugs in clinical trials' published in Cell Reports Methods
Paper 'The interplay between lncRNAs, RNA-binding proteins and viral genome during SARS-CoV-2 infection reveals strong connections with regulatory events involved in RNA metabolism and immune response' published in Theranostics
Paper 'Machine learning and network medicine approaches for drug repositioning for COVID-19' published in Cell Patterns
Paper 'A Recommender System Approach for Predicting Effective Antivirals' published in 2021 XLVII Latin American Computing Conference (CLEI)
Paper 'Role of miR-2392 in driving SARS-CoV-2 infection' published in Cell Reports
Paper 'The Great Deceiver: miR-2392’s Hidden Role in Driving SARS-CoV-2 Infection' published in Cell
Research Experience
August 2023: Joined the non-profit Kwaai AI Lab as a Scientific Advisor
July 2023: Presented research at the 14th Congreso Paraguayo de Infectologia - Simposio Virologia II
July 2023: Invited by CONACYT to a public debate about Artificial Intelligence in Paraguay at their Science Expo!
June 2023: Invited as a speaker to the N3C - NIH consortium
March 2023: Invited to give research talks at Khipu
Background
Machine Learning Researcher at the Faculty of Engineering, National University of Asunción, Paraguay. Also a consultant for the biotech/pharma industry in the U.S. Develops machine learning models for applications in drug discovery and medicine.