Resident
UT Southwestern
Dr. Marco A. Tapia-Maltos graduated in 2022 from the M.D./Ph.D. program of the Medical School of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. He worked under the mentorship of Dr. Jose Carlos Crispin and Dr. Florencia Rosetti at the Rheumatology Department of the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran during his Ph.D. and for an additional year as a postdoctoral researcher. He currently is a Neurology resident at UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas and is part of the R25 track (research track), working at Dr. Olaf Stüve's laboratory. He is interested in mechanisms of immune tolerance and how it is breached in autoimmune diseases. Particularly, he is interested in factors governing regulatory T cell differentiation and function, how mucosal immunity in the intestine can influence these processes, and how does this relate to the pathophysiology of systemic autoimmune diseases, especially multiple sclerosis.