Dr. Roxana González-Stegmaier is a biochemist (2007) with a doctorate in biotechnology (2013). Since 2020, she has been a Senior Researcher at the Translational Medicine Research Unit at the Department of Cancer Research of the fundación Arturo López Pérez (FALP) cancer Institute, in Santiago, Chile. Her research is focused on comparative innate immunity and the development of synthetic molecules as functional modulators of immune cells. She has performed several studies using in vitro and in vivo models both based on fish and human cells and recombinant peptides. Currently, she is developing small molecules to modulate the activity of immune cells against tumor cells and evaluating mechanism to suppress the malignant cascade in gastric tissue. She has received research funding from the Chilean government.