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Leticia Santos

Leticia Santos

Editorial Board Member
Institute for Scientific and Technological Research of San Luis Potosi Mexico Member since 2017

Biography

Leticia Santos is a Professor in the Division of Molecular Biology at Institute for Scientific and Technological Research of San Luis Potosi (IPICYT), Mexico. She has been a faculty member since 2003. Leticia conducted her thesis in the Department of Structural Molecular Biology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry and obtained her Ph.D. (Magna cum laude) from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany in 2002.In 2002; she worked in the Department of Microbiology at TUM on a project to identify and enrich microorganisms of clinical relevance using taxonomic tools. In 2003, she became an Associate Professor at IPICYT and initiated studies into cervical cancer. In 2006, she investigated the identification of molecules responsible for the development of melanoma at the Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki. Most notably, the World Health Organization hired her as a Senior Scientist in 2007 through Merck Serono International, S.A. in Geneva, Switzerland. She developed an assay and validated 100K molecules vs. a malaria target by HTS in a robotic plat form. Her current work focuses on the identification, expression and characterization of proteins with biotechnological interest, and the study of the Notch signaling pathway in disease. She is also interested in projects at the multidisciplinary level. Her expertise is not limited; she has collaborated actively with scientists from different countries and disciplines such as marine microbial ecology, clinical and ecological microbiology, immunology, cancer, and phylogenetics.

Research Interests

Biomedical biotechnological immunology genetics clinical environmental microbiology cancer infectious diseases and collaborate in a multidisciplinary environment

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