Mario A Bianchet
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
Biography
Mario A Bianchet has completed his PhD from National University of La Plata, Argentina and performed his Postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he joined as Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology in 2011. He is a Structural Enzymologist and has participated in several seminal structural and mechanistic studies of macromolecular systems of biomedical interest including cell-wall biosynthesis: LD-transpeptidases and their complexes with carbapenems. In addition, he has valuable contributions to diverse fields, including bioenergetics: F1-ATPase, xenobiotic-response: NADPH:Quinone oxidoreductases, DNA-repair: Uracyl-glycosylase/inhibitors, carbohydrate-recognition: animal lectins, resulting in 70 publications in reputed journals.