Peruvian Scientists - Ernesto Bustamante, Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz, Modesto Montoya, Francisco Ruiz Lozano, Pedro Paulet (Paperback)

Chapters: Ernesto Bustamante, Mariano Eduardo de Rivero Y Ustariz, Modesto Montoya, Francisco Ruiz Lozano, Pedro Paulet, Antonio Raimondi, Barton Zwiebach, Federico Villarreal, Humberto Guerra Allison, Orlando Olcese. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ernesto Bustamante (born May 19, 1950 in Lima, Peru) is a prominent scientist known for his expertise and contributions to the field of molecular biology. Bustamante holds a B.S. in biology from the Universidad Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru, an M.S. in biochemistry from the Universidad Cayetano Heredia in Lima, and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. He has contributed to science in both the academic and the corporate worlds. In academia, he has served as professor of biochemistry at Universidad Cayetano Heredia (Lima, Peru) during eight years (1977-1984). He also was visiting professor, research fellow, visiting researcher, or research scholar at the following institutions: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland, USA), Universidad de Chile Facultad de Ciencias (Santiago, Chile), and recently at the School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA) . Bustamante was a fellow from the Ford Foundation, The Commonwealth Fund of New York, Eli Lilly and Company's Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Biology, E.I. DuPont de Nemours