Angel A Islas
Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
Biography
Angel A. Islas received a BSc in Biology from the University of Puebla (BUAP), Mexico in 2007, a MRes in Medical and Molecular Biosciences with strand in Neurosciences awarded by the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom in 2009 and a PhD in Physiological Sciences from BUAP in 2013. In 2014-2015, he carried out postdoctoral studies on Computational Biophysics at King’s College London in the United Kingdom. His postgraduate studies have been funded by the Mexican Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT). He was appointed research advisor in 2015 at the BUAP in Puebla, Mexico where he is currently collaborating with the department of Pharmacy and the laboratory of Biophysics at the Institute of Physiology. By combining electrophysiology with computational methods, his published work has contributed to the understanding of the modulation of the Na+ channel and the mechanism of action of K+ and Na+ channel inhibitors.
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