Dr Carlos Abascal Sherwell Sanchez

Carlos completed his dental (BDS) and medical (MD) degrees at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEM) in 2016 and 2020 respectively.

From 2015 to 2018 he was awarded the “Adolfo López Mateos” Research Scholarship to pursue research at the Neurochemistry Laboratory of the Faculty of Medicine, UAEM, under Dr Irazú Contreras. After his clinical training he enrolled in the National Programme of Health Research at the Cellular and Molecular Immunology Laboratory of the Institute of Cellular Physiology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

In 2020 he received a scholarship from the Mexican Council of Science and Technology and moved to London to pursue a Masters in Regenerative Dentistry at King’s College London under Prof Cynthia Andoniadou. First as a master’s student and later as a Research Assistant, he worked on the role of Fibroblast Growth Factors in the pituitary gland stem cell compartment using in vivo and in silico approaches.

In 2022 he was awarded a UKRI studentship to continue his training under the PhD programme in Biomedicine and Bioinformatics at King’s College London. He is currently a PhD student at the Frost Lab, interested in the role of the X-linked KDM6A lysine demethylase on the development of the human placenta.

Outside the lab he plays violin (mostly baroque), enjoys metal music, reads widely, and practises Olympic weightlifting at the King’s College gym.