Biography
Dr. Armando Hernández García
The Dr. Armando Hernandez-Garcia (Mexico City, 1981) is a world expert and pioneer in the emergent field of bionanotechnology and synthetic molecular biology. He earned a BSc in Chemistry by the UNAM (2007), a MSc in Biotechnology by Lund University (2009) in Sweden and a PhD by Wageningen University (2014) in the Netherlands. He specializes in the design and engineering of proteins and DNA to build self-assembly nanostructures and virus-like nanoparticles with applications in biotechnology, biomedicine and others. His highly interdisciplinary work has published and featured in top scientific journals such as Nature Nanotechnology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ACS Nano, Nucleic Acids Research, Nanoletters, among others. He has delivered multiple national and international conferences and seminars in academic meetings and universities in Mexico, USA and Europe. After being PEW Latin American Fellow in Northwestern University, he opened the lab of Biomolecular Engineering and Bionanotechnology at the Institute of Chemistry at UNAM, where is developing novel biomimetic nanomaterials based on proteins and DNA with applications such as genetic sensors, antimicrobials, nanovaccines, gene delivery systems and others. He has been recipient of national (DGAPA-PAPIIT, CONACyT and SRE-AMEXCID) and international funding (University of California, University of Texas & PEW foundation) and was recognized with the 2019 national award Premio Bionano jointly granted by CINVESTAV and Neolpharma company. Currently is part of the Mexican Investigators System level 2 (out of 3) and has graduated 1 PhD and 3 master students.
Web: https://sites.google.com/iquimica.unam.mx/armandohernandezgarcia/
Twitter: @AHG_Lab
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