Rafael Deliz-Aguirre was awarded the Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he will work with Professor Uri Alon. Rafael's research uses interdisciplinary approaches to advance translational medicine. His goal is to improve disease diagnosis and therapies. For this project, Rafael will apply complex systems physics to mathematically model patient samples analyzed with spatial proteomics.

Rafael earned a BS in biology from Baylor University and an MS in biology from Texas A&M International University. He then completed a doctoral degree in theoretical biophysics at Humboldt University of Berlin in collaboration with the Max Planck Society. He has also worked at a medical clinic in South Texas and conducted research at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Beyond his research, Rafael is passionate about global health and has participated in conferences organized by the United Nations and the Organization of American States.

Recent publications:

Cao, F., Deliz‐Aguirre, R., Gerpott, F. H., Ziska, E., & Taylor, M. J. (2023). Myddosome clustering in IL‐1 receptor signaling regulates the formation of an NF‐kB activating signalosome. EMBO reports, 24(10), e57233.

Deliz-Aguirre, R., Cao, F., Gerpott, F. H., Auevechanichkul, N., Chupanova, M., Mun, Y., & Taylor, M. J. (2021). MyD88 oligomer size functions as a physical threshold to trigger IL1R Myddosome signaling. Journal of Cell Biology, 220(7), e202012071.