Maria G. Castro
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Maria G. Castro is an Argentine neuroscientist. She is the R. C. Schneider Collegiate Professor of Neurosurgery and a Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan Medical School. Her research focuses on cancer immunology and gliomas.
Castro was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[1] In 1979, Castro received her bachelor's degree in chemistry from the National University of La Plata (UNLP) in Argentina. She stayed at UNLP for master's degrees in biochemistry in 1981 and education technology in 1986, and a Ph.D in biochemistry in 1986. After her studies, she did research fellowships at the National Institutes of Health in the United States as a Fogarty International Visiting Research Fellow in 1988, and at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom in 1990.[2]
Castro married Dr. Pedro R. Lowenstein in 1988, and they run a joint research lab.[1]
