Speaker Bio
Dr. Maria Gonzalez Pons received her Ph.D. in molecular parasitology in 2011 from the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, PR. She is an Associate Investigator in Gastrointestinal Oncology at the University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center (UPRCCC), and Co-Principal Investigator of the population-based Puerto Rico Familial Colorectal Cancer Registry, which has collected more than 3,000 biospecimens from Hispanics living in Puerto Rico. Her talk to the NCI Microbiome working group is titled, Colorectal cancer disparities in Puerto Rico: Do Genetics and the gut microbiome have a role?