Dr. Marc Oria currently serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati. He completed his biology degree at the University de Barcelona in 2002, and received a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Barcelona in 2011. Moreover, he worked as a Research Associate (2014-2019) and an Instructor (2019-2023) at the Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery, at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. His research interests mainly include radiotoxicity in neuroscience; spina bifida; hydrocephalus; neural progenitor cells; congenital malformations; astrogenesis; neural differentiation; microglia; neurospheres; metabolism; and transcriptomics.