Sebastián Ignacio Azócar Plaza earned his Bioengineering degree from the Universidad de Concepción, Chile, where he conducted his undergraduate research focused on the nuclear function of the kinase NUAK1 in cancer. He is currently a PhD student in Molecular Biotechnology at the Universidad de Concepción, where he is developing a research project aimed at the development of a diagnostic prototype for taxane resistance in castration-resistant prostate cancer. His work has resulted in the publication of a peer-reviewed scientific article entitled “In Silico Design and Characterization of a Multiepitope Vaccine Candidate Against Brucella canis Using a Reverse Vaccinology Approach” and in participation in two national scientific conferences. His research interests include protein structural modeling, molecular docking, molecular dynamic simulations, transcriptomic and proteomic analyses, nanobody design and validation, and the development of diagnostic strategies for castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Sebastián Ignacio Azócar Plaza earned his Bioengineering degree from the Universidad de Concepción, Chile, where he conducted his undergraduate research focused on the nuclear function of the kinase NUAK1 in cancer. He is currently a PhD student in Molecular Biotechnology at the Universidad de Concepción, where he is developing a research project aimed at the development of a diagnostic prototype for taxane resistance in castration-resistant prostate cancer. His work has resulted in the publication of a peer-reviewed scientific article entitled “In Silico Design and Characterization of a Multiepitope Vaccine Candidate Against Brucella canis Using a Reverse Vaccinology Approach” and in participation in two national scientific conferences. His research interests include protein structural modeling, molecular docking, molecular dynamic simulations, transcriptomic and proteomic analyses, nanobody design and validation, and the development of diagnostic strategies for castration-resistant prostate cancer.