{"id":98448,"date":"2025-02-27T17:37:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T17:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.science\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=98448"},"modified":"2025-02-28T08:07:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T08:07:33","slug":"helena-groot-de-restrepo","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/council.science\/profile\/helena-groot-de-restrepo\/","title":{"rendered":"Helena Groot de Restrepo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Involvement at the ISC<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/council.science\/about-us\/our-regions\/latin-america-and-caribbean\/\">Regional Focal Point for Latin America and the Caribbean<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Helena Groot de Restrepo is a Colombian microbiologist and geneticist, full professor at the Department of Biological Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad de los Andes. She is the director of the Human Genetics Laboratory of the Faculty of Sciences, a position held since 1984. Helena focuses her research on the Molecular Epidemiology of cancer, Toxicological Genetics and Environmental Mutagenesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helena Groot de Restrepo is the first female scientist to become President of the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences. She currently serves the Colegio M\u00e1ximo de Academias de Colombia as Vice-president. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent recognitions include being marked as a Distinguished Professor at the University of los Andes Bogot\u00e1, Colombia in 2023. She also received the status of Honorary Member of the National Academy of Medicine of Colombia in 2023 and Honorary Member of the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other awards include an Honorable Mention in the \u201cWomen of Success 2013&#8243; Science and Technology category and the Aldona Gabriunas Award for Distinguished Teacher in 2011: Life and Work category, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de los Andes. She is recognized for her outstanding research career over the last 20 years as Director of the Human Genetics Laboratory, Department of Biological Science.  She&#8217;s acknowledged for \u201cDedication and valuable contribution to the development of the Department of Biological Sciences\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The page was updated in February 2025<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Involvement at the ISC Background Helena Groot de Restrepo is a Colombian microbiologist and geneticist, full professor at the Department of Biological Sciences and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[30],"region":[5],"tag":[],"class_list":["post-98448","profile","type-profile","status-publish","hentry","tag-biology","region-rolac"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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