MarÃa Laura Lavaggi
Facultad de Ciencias UdelaR
Biography
María Laura Lavaggi completed her PhD in Medicinal chemistry in 2009 at the Facultad de Química, UdelaR, Uruguay. She has been responsible of research grants involving anticancer prodrug design and published several papers on the area. Also she has mentored graduate students thesis and at the moment one Master´s degree thesis. At the moment she is involved in different research projects some of them based on the development novel anti-cancer and anti-neurodegenerative agents and ecotoxicology involving genotoxic damage of residual pesticides.