Research Professor
Biochemistry Laboratory/Crop Biotech Division
Institute of Plant Breeding, Crop Science Cluster
College of Agriculture, UP Los Banos
Gisela P. Concepcion, PhD
PhD in Chemistry, University of the Philippines
Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of the Philippines System
Areas of Current Research: marine biodiversity, marine natural products, biomedical research
Arturo O. Lluisma, PhD
PhD Biology, Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada)
Research Professor, Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines
Research Areas: Marine genomics, molecular genetics, and bioinformatics; phylogenetics and genetic diversity; algal and microbial biotechnology
Ian Kendrich C. Fontanilla, PhD
Ph.D. Genetics, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, 2010
Research Areas: Molecular phylogenetics; Malacology
Go to Dr. Fontanilla’s webpage at the Institute of Biology, University of the Philippines Diliman.
Gayvelline C. Calacal, RMT, MSc
Certificate course in Forensic Genetics & DNA
Database Technology, University of North Texas
Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Texas, USA
MSc Microbiology, University of the Philippines, Diliman
Areas of Current Research: Forensic DNA technology, human population genetics
Frederick C. Delfin, MSc
PhD Candidate, Evolutionary Genetics / Human Genetics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden University, The Netherlands
MSc Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
University of the Philippines, Diliman
Areas of Current Research: molecular anthropology, evolutionary genetics,
population genetics, forensic genetics
Maria Corazon A. De Ungria, PhD
Dr. Maria Corazon A. De Ungria had spent more than 10 years of her life in Australia training to be a research scientist in the life sciences. Her work on the plasmid biology of Helicobacter spp. used in animal models of infection introduced her into the exciting field of molecular biology.
Reynaldo L. Garcia, PhD
Dr. Garcia did postdoctoral work in New Zealand (University of Otago Medical School), Paris (Hopital de la Pitie-Salpetriere/Universite Pierre et Marie Curie), the United States (Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine) and London (University College London), before being appointed senior research scientist at Cancer Research UK’s Beatson Institute in Scotland. He has worked on Merck- and Roche-funded projects involving characterization of drug targets for pain and development of drug screening assays for disrupting cellular proliferation in cancer, respectively.
Catherine Lynn T. Silao, MD, PhD
She obtained her doctoral degree at the Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan where she did work on the molecular basis of Glucose-6-Phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (1) and of Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD) among clinically diagnosed Filipino patients (2).
Edsel Maurice Salvana, MD
Dr. Salvana is a multi-awarded and internationally recognized scientist, physician, and HIV/AIDS advocate who returned to the Philippines under the Balik (Returning) Scientist Program of the Department of Science and Technology to work on tropical medicine and other local infectious diseases.