Jeydi Gonzalez-Guzman is currently a postbaccalaureate researcher, in the Mechanics and Tissue Remodeling Integrating Computational & Experimental Systems (MATRICES) Lab in NIBIB’s intramural research program. Previously, Jeydi was an undergraduate researcher in the Wijeratne Lab at University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB) and was also an undergraduate researcher in the Harris Lab at UAB. Jeydi obtained his bachelor’s degree in chemistry at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He is planning on pursuing his PhD in pharmacology.
Jeydi Gonzalez-Guzman's research goals are to understand disease progression by characterizing pathways using biochemical analysis and to develop targeted treatments through chemical synthesis. He is currently developing radiolabeled probes for detecting hypoxic regions in sickle cells diseased subjects, and fluorescently labeling cysteine cathepsin inhibitors to actualize pathways of inhibition.