Pinoy Scientists

Chona Vince Cruz-Abeledo is an Associate Professor at De La Salle University’s Biology Department. She is a principal investigator at the DLSU’s Practical Genomics Laboratory, where she leads a team working on the validation of local practices using genetic markers and GIS technologies to maximize resource use in mangrove crab culture.

Florence Basubas is a Scientific Research and Business Development consultant at a stealth startup in Seoul, South Korea. She conducts scientific reviews and market research on the applications of the microbiome and helps develop project portfolios on the application of emerging technologies like AI, machine learning and blockchain to biomedicine.

Ea Kristine Clarisse Tulin is PhD student studying glycoproteins in the central nervous system at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.

John Paul Tosoc is a doctoral student in Biology from the Mindanao State University – Iiligan Institute of Technology. Paul has been trained in many cool techniques, including: nanoformulation, nanospectroscopy, cancer cell culture, high-performance liquid chromatography and plenty more!

Boaz Lee is a machine learning researcher at Facebook. His work currently focuses on the area of graph representation learning and temporal sequence modeling.

Shannen Recio is a research intern at Eerkens Anthropology Lab where she studies ancient diet, diseases, and forensics.

Cherrie Calderon is a chemist and environmental consultant! She is a registered chemist with 20 years of establishing and managing environmental laboratories.

Patricia Bravo is currently a Master’s student taking the Erasmus Mundus Nanomedicine for Drug Delivery Programme. She is working on cerium oxide nanoparticles that can dissolve clots in ischemic stroke patients.

Emzo de los Santos is a research career development fellow at Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology Centre where he develops computational tools for the analysis and engineering of biosynthetic gene clusters.

Valerie Valeriano is a research engineer at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Currently, she is working on developing a culturomics platform for women’s health and oncobiomics.

BA Racoma is a PhD student in Meteorology as well as Atmosphere, Oceans and Climate at the University of the Philippines and University of Reading. His research tackles tropical cyclones and rainfall over the Philippine mountain ranges.

Eric Jay Daza is a senior statistician in data science at Clarify Health, a digital health/healthcare tech company improving care through software solutions for patients, clinicians, providers and payers.

Irene Crisologo is a postdoc at Northwestern University’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. She is working on developing open-source workflows for processing radar data for rainfall retrieval, comparison with satellite-based precipitation data and post-event analysis of rainfall-induced natural disasters.

Jewel Yabut is a molecular biologist and phylogenist who has recently finished her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Korea University. Her research focuses on the Phylogeny of an insect group (Trichoptera) that can be found in clean streams and rivers.

Gerard See is a pharmaceutical scientist whose research focuses on the development of novel silicone-based adhesives of patches for transdermal delivery of medicines.

Pierangeli Vital is an environmental microbiologist whose research aims to answer food safety issues and focuses on identifying contamination in agricultural products and sources.

Manuel Holz is a “half-German half-Cebuano” sociologist whose research focuses on the quantitative analysis of migration and inequality.

Pat Lazatin is a medical student and researcher whose research focused on novel therapies that would improve post-ischemic stroke outcomes in patients.

Valerie Diane Valeriano is a molecular infection biologist whose research focuses on the understanding of the transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes.

Angelita Acebes is an entomologist and applied ecologist whose research focuses on insect biology, behavior and ecology with the goal of developing sustainable and effective management strategies against insects that are detrimental to agricultural production.