FACULTY PROFILES

Elisa Robles Escajeda

Coordinator

Research Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences

Office Building: Bioscience Research Building
Office Room: 4.130
Phone:
Email: erobles3@utep.edu

Bio

No info available.

Awards and Honors

Clinical Research Scholars Program. Fellowship Awardee. - Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) of Southeast Wisconsin. Medical College of Wisconsin. (09/01/2025)
Mexico Office of the President Faculty Binational Fellowship UTEP - UTEP (01/01/2024-12/31/2024)
JumpSTART Cohort 2022 UTEP Scholar. - UTEP (01/01/2022-12/31/2022)
Sistema Nacional de Investigadores del CONACYT (SNI) - CONACYT (01/01/2021-12/31/2021)

Education

Ph D in Pathobiology, UTEP (2017)
BS in Microbiology, UTEP (2011)
MD in Medical Doctor, UACJ (2002)

Publications

Exploring Socio-Behavioral Correlates of Metabolic and Inflammatory Risk in a University Sample Residing Along the U.S./Mexico Border: A Pilot Study Concomitantly Collecting Survey Data, Blood and Hair Samples, and Physical Measures. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22 4 (2025), Gabriel Frietze, Cai Xu, Bibiana M. Mancera, Elisa Robles Escajeda, Alyssa A. Martinez, Michelle Gil, Diana P. Flores, Khodeza Begum, Panfeng Liang, Abhijit Mandal, Michael Nsiah-Nimo, Nilotpal Sanyal, Ming-Ying Leung, Michael Kenney, Robert A. Kirken.
Exploring Socio-Behavioral Correlates of Metabolic and Inflammatory Risk in a University Sample Residing Along the U.S./Mexico Border: A Pilot Study Concomitantly Collecting Survey Data, Blood and Hair Samples, and Physical Measures. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22 4 (2025), Gabriel Frietze, Cai Xu, Bibiana M. Mancera, Elisa Robles Escajeda, Alyssa A. Martinez, Michelle Gil, Diana P. Flores, Khodeza Begum, Panfeng Liang, Abhijit Mandal, Michael Nsiah-Nimo, Nilotpal Sanyal, Ming-Ying Leung, Michael Kenney, Robert A. Kirken.
Exploring Socio-Behavioral Correlates of Metabolic and Inflammatory Risk in a University Sample Residing Along the U.S./Mexico Border: A Pilot Study Concomitantly Collecting Survey Data, Blood and Hair Samples, and Physical Measures. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22 4 (2025), Gabriel Frietze, Cai Xu, Bibiana M. Mancera, Elisa Robles Escajeda, Alyssa A. Martinez, Michelle Gil, Diana P. Flores, Khodeza Begum, Panfeng Liang, Abhijit Mandal, Michael Nsiah-Nimo, Nilotpal Sanyal, Ming-Ying Leung, Michael Kenney, Robert A. Kirken.
Exploring Socio-Behavioral Correlates of Metabolic and Inflammatory Risk in a University Sample Residing Along the U.S./Mexico Border: A Pilot Study Concomitantly Collecting Survey Data, Blood and Hair Samples, and Physical Measures. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22 4 (2025), Gabriel Frietze, Cai Xu, Bibiana M. Mancera, Elisa Robles Escajeda, Alyssa A. Martinez, Michelle Gil, Diana P. Flores, Khodeza Begum, Panfeng Liang, Abhijit Mandal, Michael Nsiah-Nimo, Nilotpal Sanyal, Ming-Ying Leung, Michael Kenney, Robert A. Kirken.
Exploring Socio-Behavioral Correlates of Metabolic and Inflammatory Risk in a University Sample Residing Along the U.S./Mexico Border: A Pilot Study Concomitantly Collecting Survey Data, Blood and Hair Samples, and Physical Measures. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22 4 (2025), Gabriel Frietze, Cai Xu, Bibiana M. Mancera, Elisa Robles Escajeda, Alyssa A. Martinez, Michelle Gil, Diana P. Flores, Khodeza Begum, Panfeng Liang, Abhijit Mandal, Michael Nsiah-Nimo, Nilotpal Sanyal, Ming-Ying Leung, Michael Kenney, Robert A. Kirken.
Rapid shift from SARS-Cov-2 Delta to Omicron sub-variants within a dynamic southern U.S. borderplex Viruses (2023), Elisa Robles, Jonathon E. Mohl, Lisett Contreras, Ana P. Betancourt, Bibiana M. Mancera, Robert A. Kirken, Georgialina Rodriguez.
JAK1 Psuedokinase Mutation HiJAKs Tyr Phosphorylation. (2022), Elisa Robles Escajeda, Alice H. Grant, Georgialina Rodriguez, Alejandro C. Rodriguez, Aleksander Lazarski, Jonathon E. Mohl, Ming-Ying Leung, Robert A. Kirken.
Identification of a Potent Cytotoxic Pyrazole with Anti-Breast Cancer Activity That Alters Multiple Pathways Cells 11 2 (2022), Denisse A. Gutierrez, Lisett Contreras, Paulina J. Villanueva , Edgar A. Borrego, Karla Morán-Santibañez, Jessica D. Hess, Rebecca DeJesus, Manuel Larragoity , Ana P. Betancourt, Jonathon E. Mohl , Elisa Robles-Escajeda, Khodeza Begum, Sourav Roy, Robert A. Kirken, Armando Varela-Ramirez, Renato J. Aguilera.
The SARS-CoV-2 origin dilemma: Zoonotic transfer or laboratory leak? BioEssays (2021), Blanca E. Ruiz-Medina, Armando Varela-Ramirez, Robert A. Kirken, Elisa Robles-Escajeda.
The Genomic Landscape of a Restricted ALL Cohort from Patients Residing on the U.S./Mexico Border International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 14 (2021), Alice Hernandez Grant, Yoshira M. Ayala-Marin, Jonathon E. Mohl, Elisa Robles Escajeda, Georgialina Rodriguez, Julie Dutil, Robert A. Kirken.
The Many Faces of JAKs and STATs Within the COVID-19 Storm Frontiers in Immunology 12:690477 (2021), Alice H. Grant, Armando Estrada, Yoshira M. Ayala-Marin, America Y. Alvidrez-Camacho, Georgialina Rodriguez, Elisa Robles Escajeda, Denisse A. Cadena-Medina, Alejandro C. Rodriguez, Robert A. Kirken.

Presentations

Socio-Behavioral Correlates of Inflammation Markers in Hispanics: Development and Implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) (2024), Elisa Robles Escajeda.
Identification of Mutated MST1 Receptor in Hispanic Patients (2023), Elisa Robles Escajeda.
Novel MST1R SNPs Show a Potential Role in Driving Leukemia (2023), Elisa Robles Escajeda.
miRNAs: a Digital Fingerprint for Breast Cancer Diagnosis (2023), Elisa Robles Escajeda.
Establishing Biobanking Best Practices for Quality Samples at The University of Texas at El Paso (2023), Elisa Robles Escajeda.
Using Genetic and Molecular Determinants from Mexican Origin Cancer Patients as a Platform to Reduce Hispanic Health Disparities (2023), Elisa Robles Escajeda.
JAK1 Psuedokinase Mutation HiJAKs Tyr Phosphorylation (2022), Elisa Robles Escajeda, Alice Hernandez Grant, Georgialina Rodriguez, Alejandro C. Rodriguez, Alexander Lazarski, Jonathon E. Mohl, Ming-Ying Leung, Robert A. Kirken.
Jak1 ALL-Mutation Dominantly Impairs Tyrosine Phosphorylation (2022), Elisa Robles Escajeda.
Genomic and Transcriptomic Profiling of Hispanic Gastrointestinal Cancer Disparities (2022), Elisa Robles Escajeda.

Grants

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Current/Future Courses

Term	Course	Section	Syllabus
Fall 2026	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	17206
Summer 2026	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	30997

Past Courses

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Term	Course	Section	Syllabus
Fall 2026	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	17206

Course Evaluations

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Bio

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Awards and Honors

Clinical Research Scholars Program. Fellowship Awardee. - Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) of Southeast Wisconsin. Medical College of Wisconsin. (09/01/2025)
Mexico Office of the President Faculty Binational Fellowship UTEP - UTEP (01/01/2024-12/31/2024)
JumpSTART Cohort 2022 UTEP Scholar. - UTEP (01/01/2022-12/31/2022)
Sistema Nacional de Investigadores del CONACYT (SNI) - CONACYT (01/01/2021-12/31/2021)

Ph D in Pathobiology, UTEP (2017)
BS in Microbiology, UTEP (2011)
MD in Medical Doctor, UACJ (2002)

Publications

Exploring Socio-Behavioral Correlates of Metabolic and Inflammatory Risk in a University Sample Residing Along the U.S./Mexico Border: A Pilot Study Concomitantly Collecting Survey Data, Blood and Hair Samples, and Physical Measures. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22 4 (2025), Gabriel Frietze, Cai Xu, Bibiana M. Mancera, Elisa Robles Escajeda, Alyssa A. Martinez, Michelle Gil, Diana P. Flores, Khodeza Begum, Panfeng Liang, Abhijit Mandal, Michael Nsiah-Nimo, Nilotpal Sanyal, Ming-Ying Leung, Michael Kenney, Robert A. Kirken.
Exploring Socio-Behavioral Correlates of Metabolic and Inflammatory Risk in a University Sample Residing Along the U.S./Mexico Border: A Pilot Study Concomitantly Collecting Survey Data, Blood and Hair Samples, and Physical Measures. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22 4 (2025), Gabriel Frietze, Cai Xu, Bibiana M. Mancera, Elisa Robles Escajeda, Alyssa A. Martinez, Michelle Gil, Diana P. Flores, Khodeza Begum, Panfeng Liang, Abhijit Mandal, Michael Nsiah-Nimo, Nilotpal Sanyal, Ming-Ying Leung, Michael Kenney, Robert A. Kirken.
Exploring Socio-Behavioral Correlates of Metabolic and Inflammatory Risk in a University Sample Residing Along the U.S./Mexico Border: A Pilot Study Concomitantly Collecting Survey Data, Blood and Hair Samples, and Physical Measures. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22 4 (2025), Gabriel Frietze, Cai Xu, Bibiana M. Mancera, Elisa Robles Escajeda, Alyssa A. Martinez, Michelle Gil, Diana P. Flores, Khodeza Begum, Panfeng Liang, Abhijit Mandal, Michael Nsiah-Nimo, Nilotpal Sanyal, Ming-Ying Leung, Michael Kenney, Robert A. Kirken.
Exploring Socio-Behavioral Correlates of Metabolic and Inflammatory Risk in a University Sample Residing Along the U.S./Mexico Border: A Pilot Study Concomitantly Collecting Survey Data, Blood and Hair Samples, and Physical Measures. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22 4 (2025), Gabriel Frietze, Cai Xu, Bibiana M. Mancera, Elisa Robles Escajeda, Alyssa A. Martinez, Michelle Gil, Diana P. Flores, Khodeza Begum, Panfeng Liang, Abhijit Mandal, Michael Nsiah-Nimo, Nilotpal Sanyal, Ming-Ying Leung, Michael Kenney, Robert A. Kirken.
Exploring Socio-Behavioral Correlates of Metabolic and Inflammatory Risk in a University Sample Residing Along the U.S./Mexico Border: A Pilot Study Concomitantly Collecting Survey Data, Blood and Hair Samples, and Physical Measures. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22 4 (2025), Gabriel Frietze, Cai Xu, Bibiana M. Mancera, Elisa Robles Escajeda, Alyssa A. Martinez, Michelle Gil, Diana P. Flores, Khodeza Begum, Panfeng Liang, Abhijit Mandal, Michael Nsiah-Nimo, Nilotpal Sanyal, Ming-Ying Leung, Michael Kenney, Robert A. Kirken.

Presentations

Socio-Behavioral Correlates of Inflammation Markers in Hispanics: Development and Implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) (2024), Elisa Robles Escajeda.
Identification of Mutated MST1 Receptor in Hispanic Patients (2023), Elisa Robles Escajeda.
Novel MST1R SNPs Show a Potential Role in Driving Leukemia (2023), Elisa Robles Escajeda.
miRNAs: a Digital Fingerprint for Breast Cancer Diagnosis (2023), Elisa Robles Escajeda.
Establishing Biobanking Best Practices for Quality Samples at The University of Texas at El Paso (2023), Elisa Robles Escajeda.

No info available.

Current/Future Courses

Term

Fall 2026

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

17206

Syllabus

Term

Summer 2026

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

30997

Syllabus

Past Courses

Select Term:

Term

Fall 2026

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

17206

Syllabus

No info available.

Elisa Robles Escajeda

Bio

Education

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Grants

Courses

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