Oscar is a 2nd year graduate student at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in the Biomedical Sciences PhD program. He is interested in neuroscience and stem cell biology in the context of human disease such as Alzheimer's disease. He received his B.A. in Cellular and Molecular Biology at Occidental College and was a Fulbright US graduate in New Zealand where he received his MSc degree in Plant Biotechnology. ​