Maria Astrid Bravo Jimenez, BSc, MSc

Astrid Bravo joined the Karimi laboratory as a MSc student in 2021. Astrid received a Bachelor degree in Biological and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at University La Salle in Mexico in 2018. She participated in research programs developing and synthesizing novel potential compounds with pharmacological activity for the treatment of metabolic syndrome. Astrid was a MITACS funded intern in Karimi's lab in 2018. Astrid has received  MITACS Globalink Graduate Fellowship, Research Manitoba Graduate Studentship and the 2023 Hillary Kaufman Lerner Memorial Award in multiple sclerosis for her MSc project. Astrid studies the mechanisms underlying oligodendrogenesis in progressive multiple sclerosis using in vitro, ex vivo and animal models.