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Enrique Villareal,

Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Translational Sciences

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Location
Duarte Comprehensive Cancer Center
1500 East Duarte Road
Duarte, CA 91010
Education
Medical school:
Degrees
  • 2015, Ph.D., Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • 2011, M.S., Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • 2011, M.P.H, Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • 2011, Certificate, Global Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • 2006, Nuevo Leon State University, M.D., Medicine, Graduated with Honors
Fellowships
  • 2015-2016, Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Transplant Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California.
  • 2016-2017, Autism Research, Rady’s Children Hospital, San Diego California. 
Professional Experience
  • 2023-present, Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, Department of Integrative Translational Sciences, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • 2017-present, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Graduate School of Pubic Health San Diego State University
  • 2017-2023, Assistant Professor of Research, Department of Translational Genomics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California (USC)
About Me

As an assistant professor in City of Hope®’s Department of Integrative Translational Sciences, Enrique Velazquez Villarreal, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S., brings more than 14 years’ expertise in translational multi-omics research, with a particular emphasis on addressing colorectal cancer health disparities in Hispanic/Latino communities.

A dedicated physician-scientist and computational geneticist, Dr. Velazquez Villarreal received his M.D. in Mexico, then completed a clinical fellowship at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Surgery and received a Ph.D., M.P.H. and M.S. at the University of Pittsburgh’s Departments of Human Genetics, Epidemiology and Multidisciplinary Public Health and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Prior to joining City of Hope, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Translational Genomics at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC).

Dr. Velazquez Villarreal’s innovative work includes the development of computational protocols for single-cell multi-omics sequencing and the application of new technologies in spatial transcriptomics within the realm of precision medicine. He has been involved in multiple research programs and projects, including as a founder of USC’s Bioinformatics Core and a co-investigator on the National Institutes of Health-National Cancer Institute Colorectal Cancer Disparities Moonshot project. He was honored with the American Association for Cancer Research’s Minority and Minority-Serving Institution Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research Award in 2022.

In his role at City of Hope, he continues to focus on molecularly characterizing colorectal cancer tissues in diverse populations and integrating clinical and multi-omics data to address challenges in the field of precision medicine. 

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