Gamboa Vilela Dionicia Baziliza

Dionicia Gamboa Vilela (PhD, 2008, Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, and University of Maastricht, The Netherlands) is professor at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering (FACI), Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), and member of the Institute of Tropical Medicine Alexander Von Humboldt (IMTAvH-UPCH). She is the director of the Laboratory Malaria: Parasites and vectors. Her group carries out multidisciplinary studies about the malaria transmission dynamics in the Peruvian Amazon region. She has published more than 100 original articles, and has supervised 40 under and postgraduate students who have graduated with a thesis in her lab. She has been a member of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) since 1996. She received the L’Oréal-UNESCO Fellowship in 2003, the OWSD - Elsevier Foundation Award for Latin America & Caribbean (2013), and the L'Oréal - UNESCO - CONCYTEC - ANC National Award For Women in Science - Peru in 2015. She is a member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and since 2013, she is member of the Peruvian National Academy of Science (ANC).