Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

José Rubén Morones-Ramírez received his Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Austin and did his postdoctoral research at Boston University and Harvard University for four years in the areas of new antimicrobial development. He is now a Professor of Chemical Sciences in the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and is currently the Director of the Research Center on Biotechnology and Nanotechnology of the School of Chemical Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. His main line of research involves the use of nanobiotechnology towards the design and development of novel therapeutic agents against multidrug-resistant microbial pathogens.

Karla Juarez-Moreno received her PhD in Biotechnology from CICESE, after completing a degree in Biology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). During her doctoral studies, she was granted a DAAD scholarship to conduct research at the Institute of Immunology in Hamburg, Germany. She later carried out postdoctoral research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, funded by a Fulbright García-Robles Scholarship, and completed a second postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology (CNyN, UNAM). She is currently an Associate Researcher at the Center for Applied Physics and Advanced Technology (CFATA, UNAM) in Juriquilla, Querétaro, Mexico. Her research focuses on Nanotoxicology, specifically investigating the cellular and molecular responses to nanomaterials and the effects of commercial and incidental nanoparticles on various cell models. Additionally, she is interested in the biomedical applications of engineered metallic and metal oxide nanoparticles. Dr. Juarez-Moreno is a Regular Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (AMC) and a Level 2 member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNII). She has co-authored more than 65 scientific articles in her field.

With a master’s degree in information science and extensive experience as a teaching professor focusing on the production, dissemination, use and application of scientific and technological information, Regiane A. Bracchi’s main role as the ACS Publications Latin America Manager is to support the scientific community in the region. This work centers on the development and implementation projects and partnerships associated to the access, use, and application of all ACS resources and solutions, as well as the promotion of opportunities and programs for the benefit of science in Latin America.