Early career interview: Marjorie Pizarro-Guajardo, Universidad Andrés Bello
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2020-03
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en
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Future Medicine Ltd.
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I studied molecular biotechnology as an undergraduate at the University of Chile (Santiago, Chile), inspired by
an interest that my high school biology professor, Nelly Parra, helped me to find. In 2011, I started to study the
anaerobic pathogen Clostridium difficile, the pathogen responsible for nosocomial diarrhea, and how the spores
contribute to the infection process. I felt a high level of passion for my work and after 1 year as Research Assistant
I was accepted in the PhD program of Biotechnology at tge University Andr´es Bello (Santiago, Chile), where I
focused my work on the development of a strategy to remove C. difficile spores from the host to make a therapy
that can improve the clearance of the infection.
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Clostridium difficile • infection • spores • treatment
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Future Science OAOpen AccessVolume 6, Issue 3March 2020 Article number 0146