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Issue 4: October 2000 |
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Dr. José Luis Ramirez
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Venezuelan geneticist Dr. José Luis Ramirez Ochoa has been appointed Director of the UNU's Programme for Biotechnology in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNU/BIOLAC). Dr. Ramirez, 56, is a professor of Genetics at the Central University of Venezuela where he heads both the Department of Graduate Studies in Cell Biology and the Molecular Genetics Groups. He is a Ph.D. in molecular biology from Johns Hopkins University. An expert on tropical diseases, Dr. Ramirez has published numerous papers on Leishmaniasis, Chaga's disease and other parasitic infections and serves as a high level Advisor and permanent collaborator of the Central American Network of Tropical Diseases. |
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