Julieta Alfonso
Julieta Alfonso is a Senior Editor at Nature Cancer, a research journal dedicated to cancer research, covering preclinical findings, translational and clinical work.
After obtaining her master’s degree in biological sciences, Julieta studied the effects of social stress on gene expression and neuronal structure in the hippocampal formation during her doctoral work at the University of San Martín in Buenos Aires. For her postdoc, she joined Hannah Monyer’s lab at Uniklinikum Heidelberg to investigate postnatal neurogenesis in mammalian models. She uncovered developmental pathways and migration dynamics of GABAergic neurons, and extensively characterized a modulator of neural cell proliferation in the mammalian brain. She continued working on neurodevelopment and malignant growth in the brain with her own group at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), and later she joined Nature Cancer in 2024.
