We congratulate Professor Alberto Donayre for winning the MISTI Global Seed award thanks to his project “Programmable biomaterials for Bioremediation in Peru using synthetic biology tools“, in which he will work in collaboration with doctor and researcher Angela Belcher from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Joined. This project proposes the creation of a system that uses yeasts as biofactories for the bioremediation of heavy metals, which seeks to promote their reduction in the environment, with an emphasis on decontamination studies in rural community areas that currently present major pollution problems. with heavy metals.

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