Speaker
Natalia Pavon Martinez
National School of Biological Sciences in Mexico City, Mexico
Biography :
Dr. Natalia Pavón graduated in Chemistry Bacteriology and Parasitology at the National School of Biological Sciences in Mexico City, received her MD and PhD degrees from the Autonomous National University of Mexico. She completed her training in the University of Bio-Bio (Chile). As an independent researcher in the Department of Pharmacology in the National Institute of Cardiology “Ignacio Chávez” she is interested in the effects of sexual hormones, specially estrogens and their metabolites over cardiovascular function and energetic metabolism (mitochondrial function). Her recent papers include one, where for the 1st time the presence of estrogenic compounds is possibly linked with cardiovascular disease in menopausal women. She has published 59 articles in reputed journals and belongs to the National System of Researchers (SNII) in México, level 1.
