Arlet M. Acanda de la Rocha, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, in Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work at Florida International University. She completed a B.S program in Biochemistry from the University of Havana in 2007, an M.S. degree in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine from the University of Cantabria, Spain, in 2012, and her Ph.D. in Biomedical Research at the University of Navarra, Spain, in 2016. After completing a post-doctoral training at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University (FIU) (2017-2019), she then moved as a postdoctoral associate to the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work at FIU (2019-current). Her work is focused on studying the functional role of TSPO in cancer stem cells in glioblastoma to develop novel effective therapies for the treatment of glioblastoma.