{"id":569,"date":"2021-08-18T19:51:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T19:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jacinto-lab\/?page_id=569"},"modified":"2023-12-14T15:40:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T15:40:38","slug":"estela-jacinto-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jacinto-lab\/estela-jacinto-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Estela Jacinto, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-698 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jacinto-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/677\/2021\/08\/IMG_4809-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jacinto-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/677\/2021\/08\/IMG_4809-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jacinto-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/677\/2021\/08\/IMG_4809-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jacinto-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/677\/2021\/08\/IMG_4809-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jacinto-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/677\/2021\/08\/IMG_4809-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jacinto-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/677\/2021\/08\/IMG_4809-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Provenance: <\/strong>Bulacan, Phi<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">lippines<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>How I got into science: <\/strong>my fascinating high school chemistry teacher<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Movie: <\/strong>La la Land<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hobbies: <\/strong>painting (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/estelaj_\/\">link to my artwork<\/a>), gardening, poetry, dance<\/p>\n<p><strong>Future plans\/bucket list: <\/strong>Do science and art somewhere exotic<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fun fact: <\/strong>I love Boba Tea!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Estela Jacinto is a Professor at the Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey.\u00a0 She obtained her B.S (Zoology) from the Univ. of the Philippines (1986) and her Ph.D. (Biomedical Sciences) from the Univ. of Calif, San Diego in 1997, where she elucidated the role of MAP kinases in T cell signaling in Michael Karin\u2019s lab.\u00a0 She was a Cancer Research Inst. Post-doctoral fellow at the Biozentrum, Univ. of Basel, Switzerland, in the lab of Michael N. Hall, pioneer of mTOR studies, where she helped identify and characterize the mTOR protein complexes.\u00a0 Her lab studies cell metabolism as it relates to cancer, aging and the immune system with the goal of targeting metabolic abnormalities to improve therapeutic strategies against diseases.\u00a0 Her work is currently funded by the NIH\/NIGMS and New Jersey Commission for Cancer Research. Her lab has received previous funding from the NIH\/NCI, American Heart Association, Cancer Research Institute, and American Cancer Society.\u00a0 She is one of the recipients of the 2011 Innovative Research Grant from Stand Up to Cancer\/AACR.\u00a0 She has received the UMDNJ (Rutgers) Excellence in Research Award and the Edward Ill Outstanding Medical Research Scientist Award.\u00a0 Estela has mentored over 60 trainees who have gone on to pursue successful careers in science and\/or medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provenance: Bulacan, Philippines How I got into science: my fascinating high school chemistry teacher Favorite Movie: La la Land Hobbies: painting (link to my artwork), gardening, poetry, dance Future plans\/bucket &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jacinto-lab\/estela-jacinto-ph-d\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1728,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-569","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Estela Jacinto, Ph.D. - Jacinto Lab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jacinto-lab\/estela-jacinto-ph-d\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Estela Jacinto, Ph.D. - Jacinto Lab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Provenance: Bulacan, Philippines How I got into science: my fascinating high school chemistry teacher Favorite Movie: La la Land Hobbies: painting (link to my artwork), gardening, poetry, dance Future plans\/bucket &hellip; 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