Luis Piña Jones
Bachelor Scientist Cellular Biology
Marlton, NJ. 08053
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EXPERIENCE
Fundación Instituto De Estudios Avanzados.
Miranda, Venezuela — Research Staff 4-II
June 2016 - December 2019
Attached to the Directorate of Health. Laboratory of Biology and Chemotherapy of Tropical Parasitism.
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC). www.cea.ivic.gob.ve Miranda, Venezuela — Intership September - December 2017
Engineering Center III. Center for Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology Fundación Instituto De Estudios Avanzados.
Miranda-Venezuela — Intership
June - December 2013
Human Tissue Engineering Laboratory.
EDUCATION
Universidad Central De Venezuela.
Caracas, Venezuela — Bachelor Scientist Cellular Biology July 2018
RESEARCH PROJECTS
PPEII-group EVALUATION OF NEW DRUGS AGAINST
LEISHMANIASIS IN VENEZUELA. THE CICLOPIROX HUMAN
USE ANTIFUNGAL INTEGRATED TO BIOPOLYMERS, AS
ALTERNATIVE — Evaluate the combined effect of the drugs for human use Ciclopirox and Miltefosine integrated into a controlled release system, on the viability of promastigotes and intracellular amastigotes of Leishmania braziliensis . LOCTI-group METHODOLOGY START-UP SIDE, FOR
PRE-CLINICAL DISCOVERY AND EVALUATION, OF NEW
THERAPEUTIC ALTERNATIVES AGAINST LEISHMANIASIS
AND MAL DE CHAGAS IN THE BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF
VENEZUELA— Establish methodologies for pre-clinical trials, for the selection and evaluation of alternative compounds in the treatment of Leishmaniasis and Chagas Disease in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
SKILLS
Aseptic culturing techniques.
Experience working to manage
and maintain cell/tissue
culture.
Analysis of data.
Experience building effective
working relationship as a team
member.
Laboratory maintenance.
Effective communication.
ACHIEVEMENT
July 2020 (to be published).
Development of chitosan
dressings with silver
nanoparticles as a controlled
release system for the
Ciclopirox Olamina drug and
its evaluation of skin lesions
produced by Leishmania
braziliensis .
March 2020 (to be published).
Infectious Diseases (ACS
Publications), Luis Piña Jones.
Evaluation of the effect on
derivatives of
Pyridinylquinolines
substituted C6-C4 on the
viability of Leishmania
braziliensis, 26 pages.
LANGUAGES
Spanish C2
English B2