Cristina Espinosa-Diez, Ph.D., has joined the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics at the Wayne State University School of Medicine.

An assistant professor (research-educator), she joined the center and the Department of Physiology on Oct. 1.

Dr. Espinosa-Diez received her doctoral degree from University Complutense, in Madrid, Spain, in 2015. She conducted post-doctoral research at Oregon Health and Science University in 2015, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh in 2019.

Her research interests lie in non-coding-RNA and in understanding how cancer therapies shape the epigenetic landscape of vascular cells, potentially giving rise to long-term vascular complications. Her lab’s main goals are to explore the response of long-non-coding RNAs to different anti-cancer agents and investigating these long-non-coding RNAs’ role in vascular remodeling during disease progression.