Affiliation: UNAM, Instituto de Fisiología Celular

Dr. Luis received his BS in Biomedicine from BUAP in 2008. He earned his Ph.D. from the Laboratory Of Sensory Transduction and Nociception at the Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain in 2014. He worked in the laboratory of Dr. Félix Viana and Carlos Belmonte and described the functional role of TASK-3 channels in TRPM8-thermosensitive neurons. He is currently a researcher in the Instituto de Fisiología Celular at UNAM, working in the National Laboratory of Channelopathies. His research focuses on the role of ion channels in cancer progression and other pathologies.