Rebolledo Solleiro Daniela, PhD

• Sex differences in anxiety and depression 
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Rare diseases

Dr. Daniela Rebolledo Solleiro earned her degree in Biology from the Faculty of Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). At the beginning of her career, she completed her undergraduate thesis project at the UNAM Institute of Biotechnology, for which she received the Premio de Iniciación a la Investigación de Jóvenes Morelenses (2004) (Young Morelenses Research Initiation Award). She later continued her academic training after receiving a scholarship from the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) (National Council of Science and Technology) to pursue the PhD Program in Biomedical Sciences at the Institute of Cellular Physiology, UNAM (2007–2014). During her doctoral project, she specialized in investigating the relationship between metabolic alterations (such as diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome) and common psychiatric disorders (for example, depression, anxiety, and sexual dysfunctions). During this stage of her career, she was awarded with a Harvard Medical International scholarship to participate as Mexico’s representative in the international stem cell course held in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2007).

Subsequently, she obtained another CONACYT scholarship to carry out a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Pharmacobiology at the Centro de Investigaciones y de Estudios Avanzados (Cinvestav) of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) (2014–2017), where she further developed the research topic addressed during her PhD, focusing on the study of the aforementioned alterations in female rats under a sex-comparison approach.

From 2017 to 2019, she was a fellow of the Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académicos (DGAPA) at UNAM and completed her second postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine. There, she participated as a lead instructor teaching the Physiology Laboratory course and developed a research project on how diabetes affects the functioning of the olfactory sensory system.

She is the author of 16 peer-reviewed international scientific publications and two book chapters. She is a member of the National System of Researchers (Level 1) ( Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, Nivel 1) and, within the State System of Researchers in Quintana Roo, as an honorary member. She also serves on the Internal Advisory Body of the Quintana Roo Council for Humanities, Science, and Technology (COQCHYT) and is part of the Organizing Committee of the Jornadas Peninsulares de Mujeres en la Ciencia (Peninsular Conference on Women in Science). She also worked as a private consultant (2006–2015) in the area of Technology Management and Competitive Technologic Intelligence for Mexican pharmaceutical companies and Mexican science and technology councils.

Five years ago, she joined Anáhuac University Cancún as Coordinator of the Basic Cycles at the International School of Medicine, where she enthusiastically teaches Cellular Physiology in the second semester of the medical program and the elective course Biological Bases of Behavior. She is an Academic Partner of the Frontier+ Research Leadership Program and the founder of the Summer Research Program of the International School of Medicine at Anáhuac University Cancún.