María Alejandra Alvarez

Argentina Argentina

Researcher at CONICET

Education

I am the PI of a Plant Biotechnology group that works in the fields of Phytopharmaceuticals and Recombinant Protein Production (Molecular Farming), particularly in in vitro Plant Cell Cultures. Regarding Phytopharmaceuticals, our work mainly focuses on the production of active principles of interest for the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. As for research on Molecular Farming, our focus is in proteins of interest for human and animal health, both for therapy as for prevention (vaccines). We also perform research involving the development of diagnosis kits (e.g: ELISA). Specialties: Phytofermentations. Biotechnological Processess. Production of secondary metabolites in in vitro plan...