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Lisandro Maya-Ramos, M.D., Ph.D

Seldin Scholar, 2023

What stood out about your research experience at UT Southwestern, and how did it shape your career?

I knew of UT Southwestern and its caliber of research from graduate school. Dr. Michael Brown came to give a talk to students at the University of California San Francisco, and I was impressed by his work and how much of his success he attributed to the culture at UT Southwestern. Moreover, many researchers and institute directors at UCSF trained at UT Southwestern, so after medical school I made the decision to continue my training here.

How did participating in the Seldin Symposium impact your research path?

The Seldin Symposium is a great opportunity to showcase your research findings. It also allows for campus members to not only learn about your work but also rate it. So exciting.

What are your current research interests and goals?

I am interested in the role that adipose tissue-derived signals play in the pathogenesis of HFpEF. In particular, I study how Endotrophin drives HFpEF. My goal is to find and learn something new about Endotrophin in HFpEF and how it signals at the cellular-molecular level. It would be nice to publish these findings. After completing my clinical Cardiology training, I would like to continue on this amazing path of science and medicine, of course, as an assistant professor.

What advice would you offer current Internal Medicine trainees about pursuing research?

Research is not medicine, this is from a practical day-to-day perspective. What I mean by this is that depending on the question you are addressing in research, it may take longer to answer it, so the approach and outlook to research is a bit different than most of internal medicine. So don't get discouraged. Keep persevering.

Representative Publications

"The Seldin Symposium is a great opportunity to showcase your research findings. It also allows for campus members to not only learn about your work but also rate it. So exciting."

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