About Me:
BS - Chemistry - UPR, Río Piedras Campus 2003
MS - Pharmaceutical Sciences - UPR, Medical Sciences Campus 2007
PhD - Biochemistry - UPR, Medical Sciences Campus 2006-present
Project Info:
Huntington’s disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant, typically late-onset, neurodegenerative disorder characterized by striatal and cortical neurodegeneration. The cause of this neurological condition was determined to be an expansion of CAG repeats in the huntingtin (htt) gene that results in a polyglutamine expansion in the htt protein. Oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction have been strongly implicated in the pathogenesis of HD but its exact mechanism and cause remain unknown. My project is directed to evaluate the role of mitochondrial DNA damage, mitochondrial function and DNA repair in HD.