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Poster recognized at the “2nd Latin American Symposium on Biocatalysis and Biotransformation”

December 28, 2016
The poster titled “HRP Nanocatalysts for Direct Enzyme Therapy” by Prof. Sonali Correa, a research assistant at the Biotechnology Laboratory of the School of Engineering, won the award for best poster presentation at the “2nd Latin American Symposium on Biocatalysis and Biotransformations.” The event, which took place from December 6 to 9, 2016, in Montevideo, was organized by the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of the Republic and the Department of Biotechnology at Universidad ORT Uruguay.

Prof. Correa is currently working on her doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Lorena Betancor, a faculty member and researcher in biotechnology at the university, in the Biotechnology Laboratory, as a graduate student in the Pedeciba-Chemistry program.