{"id":1052977,"date":"2010-10-11T10:14:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T10:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/from-migrant-worker-to-brain-surgeon-at-johns-hopkins\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:47:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:47:16","slug":"from-migrant-worker-to-brain-surgeon-at-johns-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/from-migrant-worker-to-brain-surgeon-at-johns-hopkins.php","title":{"rendered":"From migrant worker to brain surgeon at Johns Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/neurology_neurosurgery\/experts\/team_member_profile\/36A35BDE9B71CB08318C8F419FD7ACB4\/Alfredo_Quinones-Hinojosa\">Dr. Alfredo Qui&ntilde;ones-Hinojosa<\/a> is the Director of the Brain Tumor Stem Cell Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.<\/p><p>Twenty years ago, Dr. Quinones-Hinojosa hopped a border fence from Mexico into the United States and became a migrant farm worker, living in the fields in a broken-down camper he bought for $300.<\/p><p>When told he would probably be a farm worker for the rest of his life, he signed up for English classes at a community college, where one of his teachers encouraged him to apply to UC-Berkeley. There, he developed a passion for science, and showed remarkable aptitude.<\/p><p>He went on to Harvard Medical School and graduated with honors, followed by a residency in neurosurgery at UC-San Francisco, where he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in developmental and stem cell biology.<\/p><p>References:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/dralfredoquinoneshinojosa\">Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa<\/a>. BigThink.com.<\/p><div><p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/\">Clinical Cases and Images<\/a>. Stay updated and <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/CasesBlog\">subscribe<\/a>, follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DrVes\">Twitter<\/a> and connect on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DrVes\">Facebook<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a94b6_11326364-9056774269738743626?l=casesblog.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1eA4yFb6qDQ_RQydu4VXzUBQtmA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a94b6_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1eA4yFb6qDQ_RQydu4VXzUBQtmA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a94b6_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a94b6_9uHHnVtTf8A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Alfredo Qui&ntilde;ones-Hinojosa is the Director of the Brain Tumor Stem Cell Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.Twenty years ago, Dr. Quinones-Hinojosa hopped a border fence from Mexico into the United States and became a migrant farm worker, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/from-migrant-worker-to-brain-surgeon-at-johns-hopkins.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}