Hector Acosta Oviedo

Full-time professor in the Department of Biology of the Faculty of Sciences (Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela) with a Master's degree in Fundamental Medical Sciences and a PhD in Cell Biology (Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela). Researcher since 1997. I have developed my line in the area of Biochemistry, carrying out intermediate metabolism, enzyme purification and enzyme kinetic studies in Trypanosomatidae, specifically in Trypanosoma cruzi, Trypanosoma evansi, Trypanosoma rangeli and Leishmania mexicana (ULA) and Trypanosoma brucei (Victor Segalen University, France) as well as Phythoptora infestans, Plasmodium falciparum and members of the genus Pseudomonas.

February 2021