Vladimir Allex Martínez Rojas, Ph.D.

Nationality: Mexican
Birth: January 12, 1989,

EDUCATION

2018 Ph.D. Neuropharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Center for

Research and Advanced Studies, Cinvestav, Mexico. Dissertation:
Functional coupling between NHE1 exchanger and TRPA1 channel in
inflammatory pain.

2014 M.Sc. Neuropharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Cinvestav,

Mexico. Dissertation: Pharmacological and molecular study of TRPV1 and
ASIC3 channels in formalin-induced inflammatory pain.

2011 B.Sc. Biological and Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Metropolitan Autonomous

University (UAM), Mexico.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD

2018-present Post-doctoral Fellow - Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council

(IBF-CNR), Trento, Italy [granted by Caritro Foundation, 2018 Call Young
Post-Doc Researchers].

2017-2018 Research Assistant. Department of healthcare, UAM, Mexico.

2015-217 Associate Professor. Department of healthcare, UAM, Mexico.

SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARDS

2019 EBSA bursary by European Biophysical Societies’ Association [for the

attendance to the “12th EBSA Biophysics Congress”, Madrid (Spain)].

2019 IUPAB bursary by International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics [for
the attendance to the “EBSA Summer School”, Madrid (Spain)].

2019 SIBPA bursary by Italian Society for Pure and Applied Biophysics [for the
attendance to the “12th EBSA Biophysics Congress”, Madrid (Spain)].

2014 - 2017 Carlos Slim to Health Foundation Fellowship, Mexico. Excellence in

Medicine, Nursing and Nutrition.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

García G, Noriega-Navarro R, Martínez-Rojas VA, Gutiérrez-Lara EJ, Oviedo N,

Murbartián J. 2019. Evidence for the participation of TASK potassium channels in
neuropathic and inflammatory pain. European Journal of Pharmacology 862:172631. IF:
3.263

Martínez-Rojas VA, Noriega-Navarro R, Guzmán-Priego CG, Torres-Lopez JE,

Granados-Soto V, Murbartián J. 2018. Peripheral and spinal TRPA1 channels contribute to
formalin-induced long-lasting mechanical hypersensitivity. Journal of Pain Research 11:51-
60. IF: 2.386.

García G, Martínez-Rojas VA, Rocha-González HI, Granados-Soto V, Murbartián J. 2018.

Blockade of anoctamin-1 in injured and uninjured nerves reduces neuropathic pain. Brain
Research 1696:38-48. IF: 2.733.

García G, Martínez-Rojas VA, Oviedo N, Murbartián J. 2014. Evidence for the

participation of Ca2+-activated chloride channels in formalin-induced acute and chronic
nociception. Brain Research 1579: 35-44. IF: 2.733.

Martínez-Rojas VA, Barragán-Iglesias P, Rocha-González HI, Murbartián J, Granados-

Soto V. 2014. Role of TRPV1 and ASIC3 in formalin-induced secondary allodynia and
hyperalgesia. Pharmacological Reports 66: 964-71. IF: 2.754.

Martínez-Rojas VA, Jiménez-Garduño AM, Marchioretto M, Michelatti D, Tosatto L,

Arosio D, Basso M, Pennuto M, Musio C. ClC-2-like chloride current alterations in a cell
model of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, a polyglutamine disease. Journal of
Molecular Neuroscience

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS

Martínez-Rojas VA, Marchioretto M, Jimenez-Garduño AM, Basso M, Pennuto M, Arosio

D, Musio C. 2019. Clenbuterol-mediated modulation of ion currents in a cellular model of
spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy. European Biophysics Journal 48 1:S174.

Jimenez Garduño AM, Martinez Rojas VA, Juarez Hernandez LJ, Musio C. 2019. The
role of altered voltage-gated currents in motor-neuron degeneration: Analyzing the spinal
and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) case. Acta Physiologica, 227(S718):78.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

2019 Ion channels and disease. Trento, Italy.

Talk: Pharmacological modulation of ionic currents in a cellular model of the
spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy.
2017 Thematic Meeting: Emerging Concepts in Ion Channel Biophysics.
Biophysical Society. Mexico City, Mexico.
Poster: Functional coupling between NHE1 exchanger and TRPA1 channel
in nociceptive neurons.
2017 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Washington, DC.,
USA.
Poster: Role of TRPA1 channel in formalin-induced chronic nociception.
2016 Mexican Society of Physiological Science. Campeche, México.
Poster: Participation of TRPA1 channel in formalin-induced chronic
nociception.
2015 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Chicago, USA.
Poster: Role of potassium channel TREK1 in formalin-induced acute and
chronic nociception.
2014 Pain research summer meeting. Mexico City, Mexico.
Talk: TRPV1 and ASIC3: Molecular integrators that amplify the afferent
signals during inflammatory pain.
2013 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, USA.
Poster: Role of peripheral TRPV1 and ASIC3 channels in formalin-induced
secondary allodynia and hyperalgesia.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate Level Courses

2015 - 2018 Autonomous Metropolitan University, Mexico.

Lectures in Pharmacology

2014 - 2015 University of the Valley of Mexico, Mexico.

Lectures in Pharmacology and Biotechnology