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Awards

October 2019 Developing Country Travel award

October 2015 TWAS prize for the Young Scientists from developing countries

February 2013 Cum laude award

June 2005 Scholarship MAEC-AECI to study the molecular and cellular biology PhD program

November 2004 Cum laude award
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Other Memberships/Affiliations
American Association for Cancer Research –AACR-
Society of Hematologic Oncology –SOHO-

Degrees:

2014
Doctorate     Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology
Areas of research: Human genetics, molecular biology, cancer, genetic diseases
2013
Master     Other
2004
Undergraduate     Biological Systems and Organisms

Publications resulting from Research
Javier Oliver, Rosalía Quezada Urban, Claudia Alejandra Franco Cortés, Clara Estela Díaz Velásquez, Ana Lorena Montealegre Paez, Rafael Adrián Pacheco-Orozco, Carlos Castro Rojas, Reggie García-Robles, Juan Javier López Rivera, Sandra Gaitán Chaparro, Ana Milena Gómez, Fernando Suarez Obando, Gustavo Giraldo, Maria Isabel Maya, Paula Hurtado-Villa, Ana Isabel Sanchez, Norma Serrano, Ana Isabel Orduz Galvis, Sandra Aruachan, Johanna Nuñez Castillo, Cecilia Frecha, Cecilia Riggi, Federico Jauk, Eva María Gómez García, Claudia Lorena Carranza, Vanessa Zamora, Gabriela Torres Mejía, Isabelle Romieu, Carlos Arturo Castañeda, Miluska Castillo, Rina Gitler, Adriana Antoniano, Ernesto Rojas Jiménez, Luis Enrique Romero Cruz, Fernando Vallejo Lecuona, Iván Delgado Enciso, Abril Bernardette Martínez Rizo, Alejandro Flores Carranza, Verónica Benites Godinez, Claudia Fabiola Méndez Catalá, Luis Alonso Herrera, Yolanda Irasema Chirino, Luis Ignacio Terrazas, Sandra Perdomo, and Felipe Vaca Paniagua. Latin American Study of Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer LACAM: A Genomic Epidemiology Approach. Front Oncol. 2019; 9: 1429.

Ibis Menéndez, Claudia Carranza, Mariana Herrera, Nely Marroquín, Joseph Foster II, Filiz Basak Cengiz, Guney Bademci, Mustafa Tekin. Dominant deafness-onychodystrophy síndrome caused by an ATP6V1B2 mutation. Clin Case Rep. 2017 Feb 8;5(4):376-379. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.761.

Denise Yan, Demet Tekin, Guney Bademci, Joseph Foster, F Basak, Abrhiraami kannan-Sundhari, Shengru Guo, Rahul Mittal, Bing Zou, Mhamed Grati, Rosemary Kabahuma, Mohan kameswaran, Taye Lasisi, Waheed Adedeji, Akeem Lasisi, Ibis Menendez, Mariana Herrera, Claudia Carranza, et al. Spectrum of DNA variants for non-syndromic deafness in a large cohort from multiple continents. Hum Genet. June 25th 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00439-016-1697-z


Claudia Carranza, Vanessa Zamora, Mariana Herrera, Luisa Rosales, Mauricio Villlegas, Mariela Guerra, Nancy Escobar, Nely Marroquín, Claudia Osorio, Darwin Alvarez, Luis Alvarez. High frequency of MTHFR, MTR and TC2 Gene polymorphisms in Guatemalan Children with ALL. Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma & Leukemia. Volume 16, supplement 2, september 2016.

Nancy Escobar, Mariana Herrera, Luisa Rosales, Silvana Torselli, Julio Caceres, Mauricio Villegas, Mariela Guerra, Nely Marroquín, Claudia Osorio, Vanessa Zamora, Darwin Alvarez, Luis Alvarez, Claudia Carranza. Detection of BCR-ABL kinase domain mutations in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Patients. Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma & Leukemia. Volume 16, supplement 2, september 2016.

Carranza C, Menendez I, Herrera M, Castellanos P, Amado C, Maldonado F, Rosales L, Escobar N, Guerra M, Alvarez D, Foster J , Guo S, Blanton SH, Bademci G, Tekin M. A Mayan founder mutation is a common cause of deafness in Guatemala. Clin Genet 2016: 89: 461–465 doi: 10.1111/cge.12676.

Claudia Carranza, Luisa Rosales, Nancy Escobar, Claudia Osorio, Nely Marroquín, Federico Antillón, Mariela Guerra, Mariana Herrera, Mauricio Villegas, Nancy Zamora, Silvana Torselli, Darwin Alvarez, Luis Alvarez. Genetic Alterations in Guatemalan acute myeloid leukemia patients. Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma & Leukemia. Volume 15, supplement 2, september 2015.


Mariela Guerra, Mariana Herrera, Luisa Rosales, Mauricio Villegas, Claudia Osorio, Nely Marrquín, Darwin Alvarez, Nancy Escobar, Nancy Zamora, Silvana Torselli, Luis Alvarez, Claudia Carranza. Genetic Characterization of myeloproliferative neoplasms in Guatemala. . Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma & Leukemia. Volume 15, supplement 2, september 2015


Carranza C, Tinti D, Herrera M, Rosales L, Villegas M, et al. (2014) Detection of JAK2 V617f Mutation, Secondary to the Presence of BCR-ABL1Translocation in a Patient with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature. Int J Genomic Med 2: 116. doi: 10.4172/2332-0672.1000116

Claudia Carranza, Lilian Granados, Oneida Morales, Wendy Jo, Swuanny Villagran, Damaris Tinti, Mauricio Villegas, Federico Antillón, Silvana Torselli, Gabriel Silva. Frequency of the ETV6-RUNX1, BCR-ABL1, TCF3-PBX1, and MLL-AFF1 fusion genes in Guatemalan pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients and their ethnic associations. Cancer Genetics 2013. 206: 227-232.

conference in a workshop
2025
icon-pin-location México
American society of Human Genetics Annual meeting. Poster presentation
2025
icon-pin-location America society of Human Genetics. Houston October, 2019.
Latinamerican Society of Genetics -ALAG- Annual Meeting. Poster presentation
2025
icon-pin-location Argentina
American Association for Cancer Research –AACR-j Annual Meeting. Poster presentation
2025
icon-pin-location Atlanta, US.
American Association of Human Genetics –ASHG- Annual Meeting. Poster presentation
2025
icon-pin-location San Diego, US.
13th International Meeting of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders. 40th Annual Meeting. Poster presentation
2025
icon-pin-location Rio Janeiro, Brazil.
Latin American Genetics meeting -ALAG-. Poster presentation.
2025
icon-pin-location Montevideo Uruguay.
Society of Hematologic Oncology –SOHO-. Annual Meeting. Poster presentation
2025
icon-pin-location Houston, Texas, US.
Society of Hematologic Oncology –SOHO-. Annual Meeting. Poster presentation
2025
icon-pin-location Houston, Texas, US.
Society of Hematologic Oncology –SOHO- Annual Meeting. Poster Presentation
2025
icon-pin-location Houston, Texas, US.
Society of Hematologic Oncology –SOHO- Annual Meeting. Poster presentation
2025
icon-pin-location Houston, Texas, US
Society of Hematologic Oncology –SOHO- Annual Meeting. Poster presentation
2025
icon-pin-location Houston, US
Society of Hematologic Oncology –SOHO- Annual Meeting. Poster presentation
2025
icon-pin-location Houston, Texas, U
BIT´s 5th Annual World DNA and Genome Day 2014. Dalian International Conference Center
2025
icon-pin-location China
Latin american Genetic meeting -ALAG- Annual Meeting
2025
icon-pin-location San José, Costa Rica.
Latin american Genetic meeting -ALAG- Annual Meeting. Poster presentation
2025
icon-pin-location San José, Costa Rica
European Haematology Association, Annual Meeting. Poster presentation
2025
icon-pin-location Vienna, Austria.
European Haematology Association, Annual Meeting. Poster presentation
2025
icon-pin-location Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

American Society of Human Genetics. –ASHG- annual meeting
2025
icon-pin-location Houston.
Latinamerican Society of Genetics meeting –ALAG-.
2025
icon-pin-location Mendoza, Argentina.
American Society of Cancer Research (AACR): Annual Meeting 2019.
2025
icon-pin-location Atlanta, Georgia, US.
American Society of Cancer Research (AACR): Annual Meeting 2018.
2025
icon-pin-location Chicago, Illinois, US.
V Annual Meeting Hematological Oncology society, SOHO 2016.
2025
icon-pin-location Houston, US.
American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting -ASHG-,
2025
icon-pin-location San Diego, US.
American Society of Cancer Research (AACR): Annual Meeting 2018
2025
icon-pin-location Chicago, Illinois, US.
Establishment of a Exchange Network of Knowledge in Regenerative Medicine, Genomic and Cellular therapy and its Clinical application. Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el desarrollo (AECID).
2025
icon-pin-location Guatemala
IV Annual Meeting Hematological Oncology society, SOHO 2017
2025
icon-pin-location Houston, US.
Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program. NCI Summer Curriculum in Cancer Prevention. Molecular Prevention Course. National Cancer Institute.
2025
icon-pin-location Rockville, US.
American society of cancer research (AACR): Hematological Malignances: Translating new discoveries to novel therapies.
2025
icon-pin-location Boston, US.
Latin American Genetic bi-annual meeting -ALAG-
2025
icon-pin-location Uruguay
III Annual Meeting Hematological Oncology society, SOHO 2016.
2025
icon-pin-location Houston, US.
Annual Meeting Hematological Oncology society, SOHO 2015.
2025
icon-pin-location Houston, US.
Annual Meeting Hematological Oncology society, SOHO 2014
2025
icon-pin-location Houston, US.
18th European Hematological Annual meeting –AHE-.
2025
icon-pin-location Sweden.
Regional Grant Writing and Scientific Peer Review Workshop. Bogotá, Colombia. US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Pan American Health Organization ( PAHO) and Ministry of Health an Social Protection of the Republic of Colombia.
2025
icon-pin-location Colombia.
International Symposium: “ New Frontiers in Hematological Malignancies”
2025
icon-pin-location Pamplona, España.
Latin american Genetics meeting -ALAG-
2025
icon-pin-location San José de Costa Rica.
Preceptorship Latin American Meeting CML ( Chronic Myeloid Leukemia) Labs Group de Fundaleu.
2025
icon-pin-location Buenos Aires, Argentina.
12th European Hematological Annual meeting –AHE-.
2025
icon-pin-location Vienna, Austria.