Carlos Arias Ortiz

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Arias and the second or maternal family name is Ortiz.

Carlos Federico Arias Ortiz
Born	Mexico
Alma mater	National Autonomous University of Mexico
Awards	Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology (UNESCO, 2001) and TWAS Prize in Biology, 2008.
Scientific career
Fields	Virology
Institutions	Institute of Biotechnology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

Carlos Federico Arias Ortiz is a Mexican biochemist specialized in rotaviruses. Along his wife, Susana López Charretón, he has been a co-recipient of both the 2001 Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology[1] and the 2008 TWAS Prize in Biology.[2]

Arias Ortiz holds a bachelor's degree in Pharmacology and both a master's and a doctorate degree in basic biomedical research from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Currently, he works for the Institute of Biotechnology of the same university.[3]

From 1991 to 2006 he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar.[3]

See also

• List of people from Morelos, Mexico

External links

• Profile at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Personal web page at the Institute of Biotechnology – UNAM (in Spanish).

References

1. Liliana Alcántara (23 October 2005). "Susana López Charreton, las gotas de miel de la ciencia" (in Spanish). El Universal. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011.
2. "TWAS Prize Awardees Honoured at 11th General Conference". The World Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
3. "HHMI International Research Scholars: Carlos F. Arias, Ph.D." Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Archived from the original on 14 May 2006.