Radiology & Cancer Research

Carlos Zepeda-Velázquez earned his BSc degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from La Salle University and his M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry from National Autonomous University of Mexico in 2003 and 2006 respectively. Subsequently, he worked as a process chemist at Signa, SA de CV (Apotex Pharmachem INC). For his doctoral studies he moved to Canada in 2009 and joined the group of Dr McNulty at McMaster University where he completed the total synthesis of the anticancer natural product (+)-trans-Dihydrolycoricidine. He then moved to the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research under Dr Rima Al-awar, working on novel anti-tumor agents and in 2016 he was promoted to Research Scientist. His research focuses on chemical biology of chromatin regulation and drug discovery.