Renato Aguilera
Renato J. Aguilera is an American biologist specializing in immunology. He is a professor of biological sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso and director of the Research Infrastructure Core and the Cellular Characterization and Biorepository Unit of the university's Border Biomedical Research Center. His research focuses on anti-cancer drug discovery.[1] He has been recognized for his mentoring work and promoting inclusion of ethnic minorities in education and research.[2] He holds two patents on mammalian DNAse II and on the anticancer drug pyronaridine (PND). He also has over 70 research publications on a variety of research areas.
Career
Aguilera received BS and MS degrees in microbiology at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), and obtained a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987.[3] From 1989 to 2002, he was a tenured professor in the department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), during which time he was a mentor of the university's Minority Biomedical Research Support and director of the Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Program. In 2002, Aguilera returned to the department of biological sciences at UTEP as a full professor and deputy director of the Border Biomedical Research Center and director of the Biology Graduate Program. From 2003-2008, he served as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. In addition, he has been a long-standing fellowship reviewer for the Ford Foundation and regularly participates as a panelist in the Ford Foundation Annual Conferences. He was chair of the Minority Affairs Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) from 2010 to 2015; and was elected Lifetime Fellow of ASCB.[2] Dr. Aguilera was recently[when?] featured as one of 100 inspiring Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America in Cell Mentor from Cell press.
Awards
In 2010, Aguilera was awarded the William A. Hinton Research Training Award from the
References
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- ^ "Past Awardees - SACNAS". Retrieved 2020-09-17.
- ^ "SACNAS Honors Distinguished Awardees at 2019 National Diversity in STEM Conference". 23 October 2019. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
- ^ Mol Biol Cell . 2022 Dec 1;33(14):ae2. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E22-08-0357.