Paola received her B.S. in Microbiology from Universidad Ana G. Mendéz (UAGM), Carolina Campus where she was a Pfizer honor scholar in 2021. In 2019, she took part in a research fellowship with the University of Utah Department of Infectious Disease in Dr. Anne Blaschke’s lab studying complicated pneumonia in children. In 2020, she received a fellowship to work with Dr. Juan Gonzalez at UAGM studying nanoparticle properties to develop more efficient peacemakers. Now in Dr. Leung’s lab she will work in global health directed cholera prediction modeling, as well as potentially in aspects of gut immunology. In her spare time, she enjoys being in the outdoors, open water diving, cooking and spending time with her mother.