Status Graduate Student
Home Department of Aerospace Engineering
Phone
Email ichalen2@illinois.edu
Address 3514 Beckman Institute, 405 North Mathews Avenue
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Biography
Izan Chalen Paredes is a neuroscientist currently pursuing his Ph.D. in neuroimmunology in the Beckman Institute’s Cellular Neuroscience Imaging Laboratory at UIUC. His research adviser is Catherine Best-Popescu.
Education:
- Ph.D. (candidate) | Neuroimmunology | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- M.Sc. | Neuroimmunology | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- M.P.A. | Politics & Government | Universidad Francisco de Vitoria - Madrid
- B.Sc. | Molecular & Cellular Biology | Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ
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Research
Izan’s research in Dr. Best-Popescu’s Lab is focused on the understanding of the influence of viral-induced encephalitis over the development of neurological pathologies, particularly Alzheimer’s disease.