Natalia Gomez-Ospina

Natalia Andrea Gomez-Ospina is a Colombian physician-scientist who studies genetic disorders and lysosomal storage disorders.[1] She was born in Medellín, Colombia.[2] She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Genetics) and of Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation) at Stanford University and works at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.[1][2] She is a member of Stanford Bio-X.[3]

Natalia Gomez-Ospina
Born
Medellín, Colombia
NationalityColombian
Alma materNational University of Colombia
University of Colorado Boulder
Known forMedical Genetics
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Scientific career
FieldsPediatrics
ThesisThe calcium channel CACNA1C gene: multiple proteins, diverse functions
Websitehttps://www.gomezospina.com/

Education

Gomez-Ospina studied petroleum engineering at the National University of Colombia[4] before transferring to the University of Colorado Boulder, where she double-majored in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Biochemistry.[1][2][5][6] She graduated summa cum laude.[5]

She joined the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Stanford University School of Medicine and earned her MD/PhD in 2011.[7] Her doctoral thesis was entitled, "The calcium channel CACNA1C gene: multiple proteins, diverse functions."

She spent a year in internal medicine at Santa Barbara Cottage hospital before pursuing a Dermatology residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital.[8] She completed her residency in Medical Genetics at Stanford Hospital.[9] Her post-doctoral work focused on hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in pediatrics.[3]

Research

Gomez-Ospina has published research in several academic journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine,[10] Cell,[11] Nature Communications,[12] Nature Medicine,[13][14] and the American Journal of Medical Genetics.[2][15]

Her professional work includes point-of-care testing for children with disorders in their ability to regulate ammonia levels. With her colleagues, Gomez-Ospina has developed a handheld device to measure levels of ammonia in serum.[16][17][18][19]

References
  1. "Natalia Gomez-Ospina | Stanford Medicine Profiles". med.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  2. "Natalia Gomez-Ospina's Profile | Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  3. University, © Stanford; Stanford; California 94305 (2018-11-02). "Natalia Gomez-Ospina - Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Genetics and Stem Cell Transplantation)". Welcome to Bio-X. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  4. "Browsing by Author "Ospina Gómez, Natalia Andrea"". repositorio.unal.edu.co. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  5. "People". Gomez-Ospina Lab. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  6. Fromherz, S. (2004-01-15). "Mutations in -tubulin promote basal body maturation and flagellar assembly in the absence of -tubulin". Journal of Cell Science. 117 (2): 303–314. doi:10.1242/jcs.00859. ISSN 0021-9533.
  7. "MSTP Alumni (before 2015)". MSTP MD-PhD Program. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  8. "Dr. Natalia Gomez-Ospina, MD – Palo Alto, CA | Medical Genetics on Doximity". Doximity. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  9. University, © Stanford; Stanford; California 94305 (2020-01-31). "Natalia Gomez-Ospina". Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  10. Gomez-Ospina, Natalia; Chang, Anne Lynn S.; Qu, Kun; Oro, Anthony E. (2012-06-07). "Translocation Affecting Sonic Hedgehog Genes in Basal-Cell Carcinoma". New England Journal of Medicine. 366 (23): 2233–2234. doi:10.1056/nejmc1115123. ISSN 0028-4793. PMC 3839666.
  11. Gomez-Ospina, Natalia; Tsuruta, Fuminori; Barreto-Chang, Odmara; Hu, Linda; Dolmetsch, Ricardo (Nov 2006). "The C Terminus of the L-Type Voltage-Gated Calcium Channel CaV1.2 Encodes a Transcription Factor". Cell. 127 (3): 591–606. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.10.017. PMC 1750862. PMID 17081980.
  12. Gomez-Ospina, Natalia; Potter, Carol J.; Xiao, Rui; Manickam, Kandamurugu; Kim, Mi-Sun; Kim, Kang Ho; Shneider, Benjamin L.; Picarsic, Jennifer L.; Jacobson, Theodora A.; Zhang, Jing; He, Weimin (Apr 2014). "Mutations in the nuclear bile acid receptor FXR cause progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis". Nature Communications. 7 (1): 10713. doi:10.1038/ncomms10713. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 4759630. PMID 26888176.
  13. Vakulskas, Christopher A.; Dever, Daniel P.; Rettig, Garrett R.; Turk, Rolf; Jacobi, Ashley M.; Collingwood, Michael A.; Bode, Nicole M.; McNeill, Matthew S.; Yan, Shuqi; Camarena, Joab; Lee, Ciaran M. (Aug 2018). "A high-fidelity Cas9 mutant delivered as a ribonucleoprotein complex enables efficient gene editing in human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells". Nature Medicine. 24 (8): 1216–1224. doi:10.1038/s41591-018-0137-0. ISSN 1078-8956. PMC 6107069.
  14. Charlesworth, Carsten T.; Deshpande, Priyanka S.; Dever, Daniel P.; Camarena, Joab; Lemgart, Viktor T.; Cromer, M. Kyle; Vakulskas, Christopher A.; Collingwood, Michael A.; Zhang, Liyang; Bode, Nicole M.; Behlke, Mark A. (Feb 2019). "Identification of preexisting adaptive immunity to Cas9 proteins in humans". Nature Medicine. 25 (2): 249–254. doi:10.1038/s41591-018-0326-x. ISSN 1078-8956. PMC 7199589. PMID 30692695.
  15. Weiss, Karin; Terhal, Paulien A.; Cohen, Lior; Bruccoleri, Michael; Irving, Melita; Martinez, Ariel F.; Rosenfeld, Jill A.; Machol, Keren; Yang, Yaping; Liu, Pengfei; Walkiewicz, Magdalena (Oct 2016). "De Novo Mutations in CHD4 , an ATP-Dependent Chromatin Remodeler Gene, Cause an Intellectual Disability Syndrome with Distinctive Dysmorphisms". The American Journal of Human Genetics. 99 (4): 934–941. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2016.08.001. PMC 5065651. PMID 27616479.
  16. "Researchers develop a portable blood ammonia detector". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  17. "Portable blood ammonia detector could be "life-changing"". New Atlas. 2020-07-22. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  18. "Portable blood ammonia detector". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  19. Kubota, Author Taylor (2020-07-24). "Device could help patients test blood ammonia levels at home". Scope. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
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