Natalia Restrepo-Escobar

Natalia Restrepo Escobar is a Colombian biological engineer, who obtained a doctorate in biotechnology from the National University of Colombia, Medellín. She received a regional L'Oréal-Unesco Women in Science Award in 2017 and the Young Investigator Prize awarded by the Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation COLCIENCIAS in 2011.

Early life Restrepo graduated as a Biological Engineer from the National University of Colombia, Medellín branch in 2010. En 2013 she enrolled on a Masters in Biological Sciences in the same institution, where she continued studying for a Doctorate in Biotecnology. She has also published various articles in specialised scientific journals in the United Kingdom and Central America.

Prizes and awards

2011 - Young Investigator Prize, Universidad Nacional de Colombia y Colciencias. 2017 - L'Oréal- Unesco Regional Prize for Women in Science Central America and Andean Region (Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Peru)

Selected publications