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ProfessorAlicia Ponte-sucre

From Assistant Professor to Full Professor

Universidad Central de Venezuela

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  • From Assistant Professor to Full Professor
    Universidad Central de Venezuela
  • Numerary Member
    Venezuelan Academy of Natural, Physical and Mathematical Sciences
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  • Lab of Molecular Physiology, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Physiological Sciences, Instituto de Medicina Experimental, Of. 228, Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela

BIO

Alicia Ponte-Sucre was born in Caracas in 1955.
Licence in Education (Biological Sciences) (1978), Catholic University “Andrés Bello”, Caracas, Venezuela.
Magister Scientiarum in Biology (Physiology and Biophysics) (1981), Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC).
Doctor of Sciences (Pharmacology) (1993), Central University of Venezuela (UCV).
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship (1999-2000), University of Würzburg (Germany).
Staff scientist (2003-2007), University of Würzburg, Germany.
Full Professor (1998-until now) Central University of Venezuela

Products: (on request)
Publications 97
Participations in seminars and symposiums 150
Free communications 181
Divulgative communications more than 100
Editor or coeditor:

“ABC transporters in microorganisms”, Horizon Scientific Press, Norwich, UK (2009), ISBN 978-1-904455-49-3. 
“Drug resistance in Leishmania parasites. Consequences, Molecular Mechanisms, and possible treatments”. Springer Verlag Vienna (2013, 2018), ISBN 978-3-7091-0238-1, ISBN 978-3-319-74185-7 ISBN 978-3-319-74186-4.
In Spanish:

" Preguntas de Fisiología".  Editado por el Vicerrectorado Académico de la UCV ( 2002, 2011), ISBN 980-00-1939-1, ISBN 978-980-00-2673-9.  
“Las TIC en el combate de las enfermedades desatendidas: Una visión latinoamericana”, Telefónica Foundation, (2014),
"Alto Orinoco. Una retrospectiva tricentenaria. Consideraciones del presente, visión del futuro. ". Academia de Ciencias Físicas, Matemáticas y Naturales. Colección: Estudios de divulgación científica y tecnológica. Edición digital 2022. ISBN: 978-980-6195-75-2 (ubicar en http://obras.acfiman.org/)

Lecciones de pandemia, COVID-19, un capítulo en la historia del siglo XXI. Academia de Ciencias Físicas Matemáticas y Naturales. ISBN: 978-980-6195-87-5 (Edición digital 2023 Depósito legal: DC2023001563, ISBN: 978-980-6195-87-5). 
Frontiers Research Topic Collection:
Eisenhaber, F., Dandekar, T., Thakar, J., Ponte-Sucre, A.. Innovative Strategies from Synthetic Biology and Bacterial Pathways to Master Biochemical Environmental Challenges. , 2021. https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/14975/innovative-strategies-from-synthetic-biology-and-bacterial-pathways-to-master-biochemical-environmen



Additional issues, last years:
Member (Numerary) of the Venezuelan Academy of Sciences
Ex-President, Venezuelan Association for German-Venezuelan cultural exchange
Consultive Council Venezuelan Association for German-Venezuelan cultural exchange

Full Professor in Human Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, UCV, Caracas, Venezuela.
Ex-Coordinator for Scientific Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, UCV, Caracas, Venezuela
Lecturer, Graduate Courses of Cellular Biology, Pharmacology and Physiological Sciences at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.
Advisor for projects related to the description of antiviral, anti-tumoral and immuno-modulatory activity of extracts from plants of the family Euphorbiaceae, and determination of the active compounds responsible for the biological activity, Medellin, Colombia.
Coordinator of the central laboratory for the identification and characterization of natural products and compounds designed against specific targets (bacteria, fungi and parasites) as anti-infectious agents, within a multidisciplinary and multi-centric project financed by the German government in the City of Würzburg, Germany.
Invited lecturer in courses and symposia and visiting Professor at the Institute of Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases, the Institute Missio, and the Department of Bioinformatic, University of Würzburg, Germany, Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Porto, Portugal, University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
Member of academic commissions at the Faculty of Medicine, and the Council Research for Sciences and Humanities, UCV, Caracas, Venezuela
Vice-president of the Directorate of the University Foundation Fundadiagnóstica, UCV, Caracas, Venezuela.
Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences, and Chair of Human Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, UCV, Caracas, Venezuela

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • From Assistant Professor to Full Professor
    Universidad Central de Venezuela, Physiological Sciences, Physiology, Caracas, Venezuela1 Oct 1981 - present
  • Numerary Member
    Venezuelan Academy of Natural, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of13 Jun 2024 - present

DEGREES

  • Licence in Education (Biological Sciences)
    Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, Venezuela15 Sep 1973 - 31 Oct 1978
  • Magister Scientiarum in Biology (Physiology and Biophysics)
    Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, San Antonio de Los Altos, Venezuela15 Sep 1978 - 15 Sep 1981
  • Doctor of Sciences (Pharmacology
    Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela15 Sep 1988 - 15 Mar 1993

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Postdoctoral training, sponsored by yhe Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
    University of Würzburg, Zentrum fuer Infektionsforschung, Wurzburg, Germany15 Sep 1999 - 15 Sep 2000
    Postdoctoral Fellowship

LANGUAGES

  • Spanish - Latin American
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • German
    Can write, speak and understand

WHO REGION

  • WHO Region of the Americas

COUNTRY OF NATIONALITY

  • Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

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