Eugenia Barros
Eugenia Barros has a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and she is a Principal Researcher in the Biosciences Unit of CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) in Pretoria, South Africa. She has led many scientific projects in the areas of Molecular Biology and has been instrumental in applying some of her research outcomes in the agricultural and food sectors. She has also been in the forefront of plant-made therapeutic antibodies through a collaborative project with European laboratories and has scaled-up the production of an HIV-AIDS monoclonal antibody. Living in South Africa she is very aware of the impact of HIV-AIDS in society and in the most vulnerable communities in rural Africa