Pizarro-Guajardo, Marjorie2021-09-232021-09-232020-03Future Science OAOpen AccessVolume 6, Issue 3March 2020 Article number 014620565623http://repositorio.unab.cl/xmlui/handle/ria/20371I 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.enClostridium difficile • infection • spores • treatmentArtículo