Jean Carlo Marca

  Hello, my name is Jean Carlo, and I am an international student from Peru. I moved to the United States three years ago and am currently pursuing my bachelor’s degree in medicine. Moving here has been an incredible experience, filled with opportunities that continue to inspire me every day. I have a strong passion for research and for helping others, which has guided much of my academic journey. In Dr. Porreca’s lab at the Department of Pharmacology, I study how pain affects sleep using mouse models. My research focuses on whether parabrachial Calca neurons cells that express the Calca…