Arturo Huerta
Research Physician
ahuerta(ELIMINAR)@clinic.ub.es
Arturo Huerta graduated summa cum laude from the School of Medicine of the University of Monterrey, Mexico. He is currently involved in the line of research on lung cancer, in cooperation with the group of Dr. Mariano Monzó of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona (UB). He takes part in the identification and differentiation of microRNA (miRNA) expressed in different types of cancer.
Together with Dr. Ramon Marrades and as part of the Lung Cancer Committee of Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, the questions they aim to answer are whether the miRNA expressed by lung cancer is the same as in normal tissue, whether it is also expressed in the lung at the embryo stage, whether miRNA are related to patient outcome, or with the clinical stage, and whether it can be used as a therapeutic target.
He has also taken part in epidemiologic studies of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD-EPISCAN), and in a comparative review of imaging methods for mediastinal staging in lung cancer. His role in the research is mainly based on obtaining samples and maintaining and processing databases, in collaboration with the team of the Department of Anatomy of the UB Faculty of Medicine.
He takes part in the identification and differentiation of microRNA (miRNA) expressed in different types of cancer