Raquel Cuella Martin, PhD profile page

Raquel Cuella Martin is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Genetics at McGill University. She identifies as a lesbian woman. Raquel earned her PhD from the Wellcome Center for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, where she described the role of a DNA repair protein in response to “The Guardian of the Genome” – the tumor suppressor p53. During her postdoctoral work as an EMBO long-term fellow at Colombia University, she used CRISPR-dependent base editing to characterize mutations in DNA damage response proteins. Since joining the Department of Human Genetics at McGill University in 2022, her research has focused on using cutting-edge genome editing to understand the DNA damage response and probe its association with human disorders.