Bio

Juan C. Sanchez-Arias^(he/him) is a medical doctor and neuroscientist working as the Team Lead of the Customer Therapeutics Data team at BenchSci where he uses his experience in medicine, neurobiology, biomedical research, and data analysis to magnify the impact of BenchSci’s platform on empowering preclinical scientists with the most advanced AI to increase the speed and quality of their research. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Medical Science at the University of Victoria funded by a Health Research BC Award (previously known as Michael Smith Health Research BC Award). Juan’s research experience includes investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying brain and heart development, neuronal network and synapse formation, and onset of inherited cardiac arrhythmias combining model organism experimentation, advanced microscopy, and computational biology. His other interests include data science, pathophysiological mechanisms of human disease, bio-image analysis automation, open science and data stweardship, generative artificial intelligence, and science communication.

Experience

BenchSci | Team Lead - Customer Therapeutics Data | Ocitber 2023 - present

BenchSci | Science Tech Lead - Customer Therapeutics | July 2023 - October 2023

BenchSci | Scientist II, Data Extraction | June 2022 - June 2023

University of Victoria | Postdoctoral Fellow | August 2020 - June 2022

Hospital Universitario del Valle ESE | Medical Intern | September 2013 - September 2014

Centro de Estudios Cerebrales, Universidad del Valle | Research Intern | February 2014 - July 2014

Education

University of Victoria | Victoria, BC, Canada

Ph.D. in Neuroscience | January 2015 - April 2020

Universidad del Valle, School of Medicine | Cali, Valle, Colombia

Doctor in Medicine | August 2007 - September 2014