Rafael Radi
Uruguay
| Category | Area
| Country
| E-mail
| | Fellow | Structural, Cell and
Molecular Biology
| Uruguay | rradi@fmed.edu.uy
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| Biography | | Dr. Radi's work on
the cytotoxicity and pathophysiological effects of reactive oxygen/nitrogen
species is of very high impact. He has proposed the use of hemoglobin and red
blood cells as tools for studying the biochemistry of the reactive oxygen
species, peroxynitrite. Along with his associates, he has been able to design,
synthesize, and biologically characterize potential anti-atherogenic nitric
oxide releasing tocopherol analogs. He is a member of the Uruguayan Society of
Biosciences and Sec. Gen., Society for Free Radical Research in Biology and
Medicine. He has been awarded, inter alia: TWAS Prize for Young Scientists in
Biology in 1996; Roberto Caldeyro Barcia Award 1999; Pan American Society of
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Lecture Award 2003; Guggenheim Fellowship
2003; and Howard Hughes Medical Inst. Intl. Res. Scholarship in 2000. |
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