Andrea Gamarnik

Andrea Gamarnik (Capital Federal, Argentina, 5 October 1964) is an Argentine molecular virologist noted for her work on Dengue fever. She received a 2016 L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science fellowship for work on mosquito-borne viruses, including Dengue fever. She also was granted the Konex Award Merit Diploma in 2013 and the Platinum Konex Award in 2023 for her work in those last decades. She studied at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of California, San Francisco. She has done work for the Leloir Institute. She is the first female Argentine to become a member of the American Academy of Microbiology.

Biography

Early years Gamarnik was raised in the city of Lanús. In 1988, she graduated in Biochemistry with a golden medal in the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, due to her family's effort and a scholarship from the Lanus College of Pharmacists. Gamarnik finished her doctorate studies at the same university in 1993. Then, between 1994 and 1999, did a post-doctorate in virology in the University of California in San Francisco, where she studied the molecular mechanisms of poliovirus. where she created the first Molecular Virology laboratory, and from which she has already published more than 30 research papers on the dengue virus. From 2005 to 2011, Gamarnik was an International Research Scholar at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is currently head of the Molecular Virology Laboratory at the Leloir Institute Foundation, independent researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET),

One of the most important research that came out of the Molecular Virology laboratory at the Leloir Institute, was the discovery of the mechanism by which the dengue virus multiplies between molecules. or interviews with sitting presidents in Argentina,