MD/PhD student
Mayo Clinic
Maria Astudillo Potes is a MD-PhD student at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN interested in spine surgery. She is currently completing her PhD thesis work titled "Minimally Invasive Methods for Charcterization, Prediction, and Treatment of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration" in the Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine under the guidance of Drs. Lichun Lu and Benjamin Elder.