Dr. Fejerman isn't just looking at DNA; she’s looking at the person behind the code. By combining biology with social factors, her research helps move us closer to —the idea that your treatment should be as unique as your heritage.
Before her time at UC Davis, she was a prominent researcher at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) , where she initiated much of her foundational work on genetic admixture and cancer disparities. Groundbreaking Research: Ancestry and Breast Cancer Ada Marta Fejerman
Her research demonstrated that communities thrive not when they produce lone heroes, but when they cultivate dense, overlapping systems of mutual aid. For Fejerman, a mother surviving poverty was not resilient because of her "grit," but because of the three neighbors who watched her children, the local grocer who extended credit, and the church group that provided emotional solidarity. Before her time at UC Davis, she was
She is the daughter of Goya Award-winning actress Emma Suárez and filmmaker Juan Estelrich Jr. . Her grandmother is the renowned director and screenwriter Daniela Fejerman . She is the daughter of Goya Award-winning actress
Ada Marta didn’t just read the journal. She inhaled it. She dreamed in Miriam’s voice. She began to walk the neighborhood at night, tracing Miriam’s possible steps, though Miriam had taken none for two years.
She closed her eyes and listened. Unlike the objects that spoke in small, domesticated truths—the hour of a fall, the name of an offense—this locket held a map. It hummed with displacements: a train shuddering through a mountain tunnel; a harbor where lights winked like distant parrots; a pair of hands passing the locket from palm to palm while a baby slept. Ada saw a woman in a gray coat, hair tied back with thread the color of stormwater, pressing the locket to her chest and stepping onto a ship that smelled of coal and citrus.
She is a senior researcher and former Director at the Instituto de Investigaciones Género, Sociedad y Estado (IIGSE) (Institute of Gender, Society and State Investigations) at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM) .