Manuel Varas Godoy

Dr. Varas-Godoy is a biochemist trained at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso and holds a PhD in Biotechnology from Universidad Andrés Bello. He completed his postdoctoral training in the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.

Since 2019, Dr. Varas-Godoy has worked as an investigator at the Center for Cell Biology and Biomedicine (CEBICEM) at Universidad San Sebastián. He is a Principal Investigator at Centro Ciencia & Vida (FB210008), Principal Investigator of FONDECYT Regular project 1230983, Deputy Director of FONDECYT Exploración project 13240033, and a co-investigator in several collaborative projects.

His research focuses on understanding how extracellular vesicles contribute to the regulation of tumour progression. He studies cancer cell lines and human samples using methods for extracellular vesicle isolation and characterisation, omics analyses, in vitro functional assays and in vivo tumour models.