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With a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the National University of Mexico and postdoctoral experience at the Imperial College in London, Brenda Valderrama is biotechnologist specialized in molecular biology and biochemistry. She has been a researcher at the Biotechnology Institute of the National University of Mexico since 1997 and member of the National Researchers System with level II. With more than 44 scientific articles, book chapters and a book, her publications have been cited more than 1,500 times.
Between 2012 an 2018 she directed the Innovation, Science and Technology Secretariat at the Morelos Government in Mexico, the first high level office in the country specialized in promoting innovation based economic development. Dr Valderrama is the current president of the Science Academy of Morelos.
