Dr. Eduardo Silva Pavez holds a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and is a Biochemist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Later, driven by an interest in scientific research, he pursued a doctoral degree in Pharmacology at the University de Chile. In 2019, he joined the Laboratory of Cellular Metabolism and Bioenergetics at Universidad Mayor as a Postdoctoral Researcher. He is a regular academic and researcher at the Facultad de Odontología y Ciencias de la Rehabilitación at the Universidad San Sebastián.

Dr. Eduardo Silva Pavez serves as a teacher in basic sciences, mainly teaching Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology, at the Facultad de Odontología y Ciencias de la Rehabilitación at the Universidad San Sebastián.

His scientific interests are focused on studying the cellular and molecular biology of cancer, emphasizing processes related to tumor recurrence and the role of cellular metabolism, also in the search for new molecular targets that allow us to selectively affect the viability and proliferation of cancer cells, through pharmacological and molecular approaches, and more recently, bioenergetic and metabolic ones. On the other hand, the majority of his scientific publications focus on understanding the functioning of the signaling transduction pathways that are hyperactivated in different types of tumors, such as the Wnt/β-catenin, Ca2+/IP3Rs, and PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathways, as well as understanding the role of Ser/Thr-kinases (e.g. CK2, Akt, mTOR, and AMPK) in tumor viability, autophagy, proliferation, and metabolism.