KHIPU 2021 – August Event

Gonzalo Moratorio received his PhD (2012, in Molecular Biology) at the Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Virology Department of the Institut Pasteur at Paris, France (2012-2018). He is currently Associate Professor of Virology at the School of Science, Universidad de la República, Uruguay; and head of the Experimental Evolution of Viruses Laboratory at the Institut Pasteur of Montevideo, Uruguay. His research combines both experimental evolution and synthetic biology on RNA viruses and translational research (co-inventor of a patent to design Synthetic RNA viruses as vaccine candidates). His studies have helped to unravel the molecular basis of viral attenuation through experimental evolution approaches. In 2020 he was distinguished as one of the 10 most relevant scientific personalities by the journal Nature thanks to his work to contain the SARS CoV-2 pandemic in Uruguay.