Carlos Arias Ortiz
Mexican biochemist specialized in rotaviruses and corecipient of the Carlos JFinlay Prize for Microbiology UNESCO, 2001
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| Intro | Mexican biochemist specialized in rotaviruses and corecipient of the Carlos JFinlay Prize for Microbiology UNESCO, 2001 | |
| Places | Mexico | |
| is | Chemist Scientist Biochemist | |
| Work field | Science | |
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Carlos Federico Arias Ortiz is a Mexican biochemist specialized in rotaviri. Along his wife, Susana López Charretón, he has been a co-recipient of both the 2001 Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology and the 2008 TWAS Prize in Biology.
Arias Ortiz holds a bachelor's degree in Pharmacology and both a master's and a doctorate degree in basic biomedical research from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Currently, he works for the Institute of Biotechnology of the same university.
From 1991 to 2006 he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar.