EDUCATION

December 1977 B.Sc. Biology and Chemistry
Universidad de La Salle, Bogota, Colombia

June 1981 M.Sc. Biology, Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, USA.
Dr. Ronald V. Dimock, Advisor.

June 1985 Ph.D. Zoology, University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA
Professor Raymond T. Damian, Advisor.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1985-1987 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Medical
and Molecular Parasitology, NYU Medical
Center, New York, N.Y., Dr. Vincenzo
Enea, Advisor

1987-1990 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Unité d'Immuno-
parasitologie, Institut Pasteur, France
Dr. Peter H. David, Advisor

1991-present Assistant Professor, Dept. of Parasitology
University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

SCHOLARSHIPS

1981-1985 Ph.D. Research Assistantship.
As part of a National Institutes of Health Grant given to Professor Raymond T. Damian.

1985-1990 Fellowship from the World Health
Organization (WHO).

TRAINING ABROAD

1998- 1999 Prof. Herman Bujard. Center for Molecular Biology,
University of Heidelberg. Sabbatical year (March - October)

1997 Prof. Herman Bujard. Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg. Expression of malarial proteins in a heterologous inducible tTA system (May).

1995 Dr. Andy P. Waters, Department of Parasitology, University of Leiden. Transfection of Malaria Parasites (July -October).