Dr. Alejandro Corvalan

I hold medical doctor degrees from Universidad de Chile, Chile and the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), USA and master’s in science degree in Cell Biology from Universidad de Chile. I have worked as a pathologist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, USA, and a postdoctoral research fellow in molecular pathology and virology at Tokyo Medical and Dental School and Kagoshima University in Japan. I am an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS) at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. My academic activities include translational research in oncology as well as postgraduate education. My laboratory research focuses on the interactions between coding and non-coding genes (microRNA and long non-coding RNA) in gastric cancer. I am particularly interested in the molecular basis of precancerous gastric lesions and hereditary and EBV subtypes of this neoplasm. My research discoveries have contributed to the understanding of the pathogenesis of gastric cancer and have also served as potential biomarkers for non-invasive detection of this neoplasm.