Maria G. Castro

Maria G. Castro is an Argentine neuroscientist. She is the R. C. Schneider Collegiate Professor of Neurosurgery and a Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan Medical School. Her research focuses on cancer immunology and gliomas.

Early life and education

Castro was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Castro married Dr. Pedro R. Lowenstein in 1988, and they run a joint research lab.

Career

Castro and Lowenstein joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001. In 2011, they moved their joint lab to the University of Michigan.

Castro was awarded the 2016 Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The award provided $2.8 million in research funding for her laboratory.

University of Michigan's Rogel Cancer Center named Castro as a 2020 Forbes Scholar, providing funding for her research into models of glioblastoma.