Natalia Gomez-Ospina

Natalia Gomez-Ospina is a Colombian physician-scientist who studies genetic disorders and lysosomal storage disorders. She was born in Medellín, Colombia. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Genetics) and of Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation) at Stanford University and works at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.

Education Gomez-Ospina studied petroleum engineering at the National University of Colombia before transferring to the University of Colorado Boulder, where she double-majored in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Biochemistry. She graduated summa cum laude. Her doctoral thesis was entitled, "The calcium channel CACNA1C gene: multiple proteins, diverse functions."

She spent a year in internal medicine at Santa Barbara Cottage hospital before pursuing a Dermatology residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She completed her residency in Medical Genetics at Stanford Hospital. Her post-doctoral work focused on hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in pediatrics. Cell, Nature Communications, Nature Medicine, and the American Journal of Medical Genetics.

Her professional work includes point-of-care testing for children with disorders in their ability to regulate ammonia levels. With her colleagues, Gomez-Ospina has developed a handheld device to measure levels of ammonia in serum.