Dr. Carrasco is a Comparative Pathologist for the Laboratory of Comparative Pathology in the Center for Comparative Medicine and Pathology (CCMP). He holds a faculty appointment as an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. He received his DVM from the Universidad Mayor Chile and obtained his master’s degrees in preventive veterinary medicine and comparative pathology from the University of California Davis. He completed his Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. After finishing his graduate studies, he pursued his residency training in anatomic pathology with emphasis on laboratory animal pathology at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Carrasco has been a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists since 2019. Prior to joining CCMP, he was a comparative pathologist in the Division of Comparative Medicine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he provided comparative pathology services for a wide range of laboratory animal species, including aquatic and avian species, nonhuman primates (both common marmosets and rhesus macaques), and laboratory rodents and lagomorphs. His research has focused on understanding the role of Borrelia burgdorferi’s virulence factors and macrophage scavenger receptors in the pathogenesis of arthritis and carditis in the mouse model of Lyme disease. His collaborative research focuses on phenotyping and comparative pathology in diverse translational research areas, including infectious diseases, cancinogenesis, immunology, aging, microbiome, toxicopathology, drug discovery, and mouse models of SARS-CoV2.