Amalia Dutra
Amalia Dutra, Ph.D, is a Uruguayan genetic biologist known for being part of the team that mapped the human genome.Biography
Amalia Dutra, born in Tarariras, graduated from the at the University of the Uruguayan Republic in 1983. She decided to devote herself to research at. Dutra taught genetics at the University of the Uruguayan Republic's Faculties of,, and. In 1988, she emigrated to the United States of America and found work at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, researching the genetics of immune disorders at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. In 1993, she began researching at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Washington.
Currently, she is the Director of the Central Laboratory of Cytogenetics and Confocal Microscopy of NHGRI.Citations
