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| Education |
| 1999-2004 |
Ph.D. degree in Medical Biochemistry. Institute of Medical Biochemistry, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. |
| 1983-1989 |
B.S. and M.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics. Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University “M.V. Lomonosov”, Moscow,
Russia. |
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| Experience |
| since 2001 |
Member of the National PhD Thesis Examining Committee for Biological Sciences, Cuba. |
| since 1999 |
Group Leader at the Center of Molecular Immunology (CIM), Havana, Cuba. |
| 2007 |
Invited teacher at Oslo University, Norway. Course on Macromolecular Structure. |
| 2005 |
Two months working visit at the “Equipe de dynamique des assemblages membranaires”, University Henri Poincare, Nancy,
France. |
| 2001 |
One month working visit to the “Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology”, National Cancer Institute, NIH,
Bethesda, USA. |
| 1994-1999 |
PhD student at the Institute of Medical Biochemistry, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (three years in total, alternating
with work at CIM in Havana). |
| 1992-1999 |
Junior Researcher at the Center of Molecular Immunology, Havana, Cuba. |
| 1989-1992 |
Teaching of Physics and Mathematics at the Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Technology, Havana, Cuba. |
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| Awards |
| 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009. |
Annual Award of the Cuban Academy of Sciences |
| 2002 |
Annual Prize of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for the patent on the antitumor antibody h-R3. |
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| Research interest |
- Prediction of protein-ligand interaction. Development of new docking algorithms.
- Protein engineering, currently focused on antibody binding sites and cancer-related growth factors.
- Studies of the mechanisms of action of antitumor antibodies: Structure-function relationships using X-ray
crystallography, molecular and celular biology, and molecular modeling.
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