Marco Sanchez, Ph.D.

Staff Scientist

Education: Ph.D., CINVESTAV, Mexico City, Mexico; A.B., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Research interests: Membrane transport proteins in African trypanosomes and Leishmania parasites. Transporters for nucleosides and nucleobases, pyruvate; KHARON1 and trafficking of flagellar membrane proteins in African trypanosomes.

Diana Ortiz, Ph.D

Assistant Staff Scientist

Education: Ph.D., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM); A.B., UNAM

Research interests: Membrane transporters for glucose and for purines in Leishmania and malaria parasites. Drug development against parasitic protozoa, high throughput screening, phenotypic screens, screens for selective inhibitors of essential parasite transporters, inhibitors of parasite electron transport chains.