Andres Florez

I am passionate about discovering new medicines for hard-to-treat diseases, by combining disparate technologies in unique ways. In cancer biology, I discovered the link between ferroptosis and MYC, an undruggable target, leading to new treatments for aggressive tumors. I worked on in silico drug screening using World Community Grid for drug discovery in leishmaniasis. I developed new synthetic biology tools in CRISPR and degrons in bacteria.