María Alvarez
Dr. María Alejandra Alvarez is a member of the National Council of Research (CONICET- Argentina) in Argentina. She worked at the University of Buenos Aires where she has began her studies on In vitro plant cell cultures for secondary metabolism production in 1986. Since 2001 she has conducted research on molecular farming for producing biopharmaceuticals. In 2005 she moved to the Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología Dr. César Milstein (CONICET) where she is currently the director of The Plant Biotechnology group.