Carolina Centeno-Cerdas M.Sc.
Ph.D. candidate
carolina.centeno@tum.de
Beruflicher Werdegang und Ausbildung
Oct 2014 – To date
Dr. rer. nat. Candidate. Laboratory of Tissue Engineering and Regeneration. Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery. Klinikum rechts der Isar - Technische Universität München
Mar 2004-Jun 2009
University of Costa Rica, Biomedical Sciences Postgraduate Program
M.Sc. in Biomedical Sciences with emphasis in Cell Physiology
Feb 2000-Dec 2003
Costa Rica Institute Of Technology, Costa Rica
Degree in Biotechnology Engineering
Mar 2000-Dec 2002
University of Costa Rica, School of Medicine
Courses in Medical Sciences
Career-Steps
Jan 2017 – To date
Guest researcher. Rinkevich lab. Institute of Lung Biology and Disease (iLBD), Comprehensive Pneumology Center (CPC).
Helmholtz Zentrum München, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH)
Oct 2014 – To date
Guest researcher. Laboratory of Tissue Engineering and Regeneration. Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery.
Klinikum rechts der Isar - Technische Universität München
Jan 2014 – Oct 2014
BioEngineering Research Program, Costa Rica Institute of Technology.
Foundress and Former Coordinator (During 2014). Program implementation, event management, project coordination, accounting and budgeting as well as technical support
Abr 2012-May 2012
Regenerative Medicine Unit, Epithelial Biomedicine Division, Technological, Environmental and Energy Research Center (CIEMAT), Spain, and Transplant Coordination Unit, Asturias University Central Hospital (HUCA), Spain.
Fellowship. Skin bioengineering and development of preclinical animal models for the study of human skin diseases. Under supervision of Marcela delRío and Fernando Larcher (CIEMAT), and Álvaro Meana (HUCA).
Feb 2010-To date
Biology School, Costa Rica Institute of Technology
Lecturer for the career of Biotechnology Engineering. Giving lectures and laboratory sessions of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Culture of Animal Cells. Organizing workshops, seminars and other activities in themes related to health and research in medical applications.
Apr 2009-To date
Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Centre for Biotechnology Research. Costa Rica Institute of Technology
Researcher. Optimization of in vitro production of human skin and its transplant to patients with epidermal affections. Research in Tissue Engineering, as well as bioactivity assays
Feb 2006-Sept 2014
Biological Assays Laboratory (LEBi), Faculty of Medicine, University of Costa Rica
Member of the Scientific Committee. Evaluation of research proposals and reports.
Feb 2006- Sept 2014
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine. University of Costa Rica
Lecturer of Biochemistry. Giving lectures and laboratory sessions to students. Organizing talks and seminars in themes related to health and biochemistry.
Feb 2006- Sept 2014
School of Medicine and Biological Assays Laboratory. University of Costa Rica
Researcher. Detection and characterization of mutations in coding regions of ATP7B gene in Costa Rican patients with Wilson Disease. Design of biological dressings for inducing regeneration in skin wounds
Dec 2006-Dec 2007
Medicare Medical Services. Cartago, Costa Rica
Project Advisor. Provided support for the preparation, execution and evaluation of clinical studies, especially those with an epidemiologic component.
Oct 2007-Nov 2007
Department of Medical Genetics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Fellowship. Research on genetic variants implicated on Wilson Disease and molecular techniques used for their diagnostic.
Under supervision of Dr. Diane W. Cox
Feb 2003-Feb 2009
Medical Genetics and Metabolism Department, Children’s National Hospital; and Molecular Genetics Laboratory, National Newborn Screening Program. Costa Rica
Fellowship. Collaborating with research for molecular diagnosis of inborn errors of metabolism.
Feb 2004-Dec 2005
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine. University of Costa Rica
Assistant Instructor. Giving lectures and laboratory sessions to students
Feb 2004-Jul 2004
Biological Assays Laboratory (LEBi), Plants Biotechnology Division, University of Costa Rica
Laboratory Assistant. In charge of introducing, micro-propagating and acclimating vegetal material of pharmaceutical interest.
Feb 2000-Dec 2003
Molecular Genetics Laboratory, National Newborn Screening Program, Children’s National Hospital “Dr. Carlos Sáenz H”. Costa Rica
Researcher. Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia due to 21 hydroxylase deficiency: Analysis of 6 mutations of gene CYP21B in patients from the National Newborn Screening Program. Graduation project, ITCR.
Feb 2003-Nov 2003
School of Biology, Costa Rica Institute of Technology, Cartago, Costa Rica
Research Student. Establishment of a protocol for in vitro culture of Plantago major.
Feb 2000-Nov 2000
Centre for Biotechnological Research (CIB), ITCR, Costa Rica
Research Project Assistant Student. In vitro micro propagation of orchids and potatoes.
Preise und Auszeichnung
Dec 2013 First place, Science Category, Costa Rica’s Ministry of Health
First Health Fair on Science and Technology, (December 11-13, 2013). Poster cathegory. Ulloa-Fernández A., L.A. Calvo-Castro, M.I. Chaves Rodríguez, M. Jarquín-Cordero, C. Centeno-Cerdas, I. Moreira, E. Arnáez, M. Navarro and M. Rojas. “Jatropha curcas: a new candidate in the search for anticancer agents”
Jan 2008 “Contributions to creativity and excellence” Award
Florida Ice&Farm. Best project in Science area.
Dic 2007 Best Research Project.
Pfizer Scientific Institute, Latin America. Second place
Oct 2001 Third Place
V Fair of Ideas and Business. Costa Rica Institute of Technology, Cartago, Costa Rica
Jan 2000-2004 Scholarship in Academic Excellence
Costa Rica Institute of Technology, Cartago, Costa Rica
Dec 1999 Honors Graduate
Sagrado Corazón de Jesús High School, Cartago, Costa Rica
Forschungsaktivitäten
Publikationen
Chávez MN, Schenck TL, Hopfner U, Centeno-Cerdas C, Somlai-Schweiger I, Schwarz C, Machens HG, Heikenwalder M, Bono MR, Allende ML, Nickelsen J, Egaña JT. 2016. Towards autotrophic tissue engineering: Photosynthetic gene therapy for regeneration.
Biomaterials. 75: 25–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2015.10.014
Calvo-Castro L, Ulloa-Fernández A, Portuguez-Barboza R, Centeno-Cerdas C, Guerrero-Barrantes M, Rojas-Chaves M. 2015. Evaluación de técnicas de procesamiento y almacenamiento de piel cadavérica para bancos de tejidos.
Tecnología en Marcha. Edición especial Ingeniería de Tejidos. 28 (2): 69-82.
Centeno-Cerdas C, Calvo-Castro L, Guerrero M, Alvarenga S, Chaves N & Rojas M. 2012. Costa Rican experience in the establishment of Tissue Engineering: A technological university approach. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. 6 (Suppl. 1): 410.
Fernández Montes de Oca ML, Alape-Girón A, Artolozaga Sustacha MJ, Calvo Bolaños LA, Centeno-Cerdas C, Gómez Salas G, Granados Blanco K, Madrigal Villalobos M, Murillo Solís AG, Pinto-Tomás A, Quesada Mora S, Salas Hidalgo E, Somarribas Patterson LF, Vindas Angulo LA y Campos Rodríguez D. 2012. Aprendizaje cooperativo en un curso de bioquímica: opinión de estudiantes y efecto en su rendimiento académico. Actualidades Investigativas en Educación (INIE) 12 (1): 1-26. ISSN 1409-4703.
Rojas M, Bonilla R, Campos S, Centeno C, Del Valle C, Pacheco JP, Saborío A, Vega J, Fernández H & Leal A. Frecuencia del alelo causante de la enfermedad de Charcot-Marie-Tooth tipo axonal con herencia autosómica recesiva en la población de Palmares, Alajuela. International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation (Rev. Biol. Trop). 57 (Suppl.1): 381-387
Sandí M, Centeno C, Jaramillo O, Rivera J & Sánchez A. 2005.
Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: Molecular and Epidemiology Characterization in Costa Rica. Hormone Research. 64 (1): 327-8.