Latest News on Awards and Recognition

January 2019

• An ORT MBA graduate is a finalist for the 2019 AMBA Entrepreneurial Venture Award
  Jan. 29, 2019
  For the first time, a Uruguayan is among the finalists for this award.
• A professor presented the best research at the 2018 Drug Discovery for Neglected Diseases International Congress
  Jan. 25, 2019
  The research paper “Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase is the molecular drug target of steroid derivatives” by Cecilia Ortiz, a biotechnology instructor at the Faculty of Engineering and a research assistant at the Laboratory of Redox Biology of Trypanosomes at the Institut Pasteur in Montevideo, won the Best Research Work award at the 2018 Drug Discovery for Neglected Diseases International Congress.