Dr. Georgialina Rodriguez is an Associate Professor of Research in the Border Biomedical Research Center at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) located along the U.S.-Mexico border. Dr. Rodriguez is a native El Pasoan who attended UTEP from 1999 to 2003 and was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree from the Department of Biological Sciences with the honor of Magna Cum Laude. Post-graduation, she was accepted into multiple Doctor of Philosophy degree programs to study cellular biology in the state of Texas. In 2009, she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center - Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, with a specialty in cellular signaling and immunology. Dr. Rodriguez then returned to UTEP as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Biological Sciences where she continued studying cross-talk mechanisms between cytokine and G-protein coupled receptors. Subsequently, she was promoted to Associate Professor of Research in the Department of Biological Sciences with the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) at UTEP and has since formed cross-departmental collaborations to better understand drivers of cancer which disproportionately impact the Hispanic community.