Virneliz Fernandez Vega, B.S.

The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, Florida, United States

Virneliz Fernández Vega is a Scientific Associate in the Department of Molecular Medicine at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation and Technology in Jupiter, Florida. She joined the High Throughput Screening Molecular Screening Center in 2008. She is mainly responsible to develop, implement and validate physiologically relevant functional 3D cell culture models in brain samples for precision medicine therapeutic profiling approach, drug target screening and for phenotypic evaluation of anti-cancer drugs. As part of the molecular screening center, she also develops and implements biochemical and cell-based assays compatible for uHTS campaigns to screen large compound libraries for drug discovery of a multidisciplinary range of therapeutic areas including cancer, autoimmune diseases, neurological disorders, and infectious diseases. All her work had led to multiple publications in peer reviewed journals throughout her career.

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Presentation(s):

• Identification of Small Molecule Inhibitors of hyperphosphorylated tau (p-tau) Aggregation Via High Throughput Screening

  Wednesday, February 7, 2024
  10:30 AM – 11:00 AM EST