Cesar A. Ramirez-Sarmiento

César A. Ramírez-Sarmiento is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering (IIBM) from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Adjunct Researcher at the Millenium Institute for Integrative Biology (iBio). He obtained his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Neurosciences at the University of Chile, and received doctoral training in biophysics and computational biology at the University of California San Diego. Using computational and experimental protein engineering and design tools, he currently works on the discovery, characterization, engineering, and design of bacterial enzymes that hydrolyze PET, a widely used plastic that accumulates as waste in landfills and natural environments at similar rates to its production. [Google Scholar]

October 2023