Dr Braulio Mark Valencia Arroyo
PhD, Infection and Immunology. UNSW Sydney, Kirby Institute. 2023
Infectious Diseases Specialist. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. 2016
Master of Science, Control of Tropical and Infectious Diseases. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. 2011
Medical Doctor. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. 2008
Dr Valencia Arroyo (MD, MSc, PhD) is an infectious diseases physician and emerging research leader in human immunogenetics, with extensive background experience (>12 yrs) in clinical research and a recent PhD studying host and pathogen determinants of infectious diseases outcomes incorporating whole genome viral sequencing, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and genome-to-genome analyses. He also acquired complementary bioinformatics and genomics skills training in Genomic data science (John Hopkins University), Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics (The European Bioinformatics Institute), and Genomics and Clinical Virology (Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge). In the first year post-PhD, Dr Valencia Arroyo has an i-index = 15, FWCI = 2.18, and 38 publications of collaborations with 132 researchers worldwide; 36% of the papers are in the top 10% most cited. He currently leads the host immunogenetics arm of the Viral Immunology Systems Program (VISP), which investigates globally significant infectious diseases (dengue, hepatitis C, SARS CoV-2). Dr Valencia Arroyo is a member of the Executive Committee of COFFI, the international consortium supporting this proposal with 19 prospective cohorts following subjects from acute infective illness up to 6-12 months after infection. He has participated as an expert in two World Health Organization technical reports in HTLV-1 (ISBN: 978-92-4-002022-1) and American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis (ISBN: 978-92-75-32191-1), as well as a book chapter on neurological infections (10.1016/B978-0-444-53490-3.00013-3). Dr Valencia Arroyo is an active peer reviewer for over 18 scientific journals (54 peer-reviews) and an infectious diseases officer at the Public Health Unit (South Eastern Sydney Local Health District), supporting outbreak containment activities and case investigations. To date, his research has attracted >$340K in competitive grant funding, including a prestigious Scientia scholarship and a global UNSW initiative to retain outstanding researchers.
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- Teaching and Supervision
2022 - 2023: Kirby Institute Emerging Investigator Awards, UNSW ($ 7,000). Proposal: HESN-HCV: untangling the genetic basis of hepatitis C infection resistance.
2018 - 2022: PhD Scientia Scholarship, UNSW ($40,000 yearly stipend and annual educational fees of $43,440).
2016 - 2017: Grants for Innovation, Science, and Technology – Peruvian Government (US$ 125,000). Proposal: Early ultrasonographic detection of treatment response in Cutaneous Leishmaniasis patients.
2016 - 2017: Gorgas Memorial Foundation Research Grant Award, UAB, USA ($ 27,000). Proposal: Point of Care testing for confirmatory diagnosis of Tegumentary Leishmaniasis: usefulness of two molecular approaches in endemic villages from Peru.
2015 - 2016: Fogarty Global Health Fellows (Grant 5R25TW009340-04), USA ($ 82,000). Proposal: Parasite density as a biomarker of therapeutic response in cutaneous leishmaniasis: A multidisciplinary study based on volumetric and parasite load estimations.
2023: Grant Writing Award, International Union of Immunological Societies. First prize in the grant writing competition held during the course “Epigenetic Regulation of Immune Responses”. Proposal title: Elucidating the Influence of Epigenetic Regulation on Immune Cells in the Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection (PASC). Kerala, India, October 2023.
2023: Travel Award, International Union of Immunological Societies. Full scholarship to participate in the “Epigenetic Regulation of Immune Responses” course. Kerala, India, October 2023.
2020 - 2021: Postgraduate Research Support Scheme (PRSS) funding for conference travel, UNSW ($ 2,800). To participate in the Genomics and Clinical Virology course, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
2018 - 2019: Exchange Fellowships for early career researchers, Sydney partnership for health education research and enterprise (SPHERE) ($ 5,000). Proposal: Next Generation Sequencing for Detection and Identification of neglected viral pathogens in low-income settings.
My Teaching
Tutor – Clinical Immunology (PATH3209), UNSW Sydney, School of Medical Sciences July 2021 - Present
Tutor – Musculoskeletal diseases (PATH3207), UNSW Sydney, School of Medical Sciences July 2021 - Present
Tutor – Cancer Pathology (PATH3206), UNSW Sydney, School of Medical Sciences July 2021
Course Facilitator – Society and Health / Health maintenance A-B (Phase 1 courses), UNSW Sydney, School of Medicine February 2020 - 2021
Mentor – Molecular Basis of Disease (PATH3205), UNSW Sydney, School of Medical Sciences February 2020 - Present
Lecturer – Gorgas Course of Infectious Diseases, The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), USA. February 2012 - February 2018