Associate Professor of Biological Science
California State University Fullerton
María Soledad Ramírez (Ph.D. degree from the University of Buenos Aires [2008], a post-doctoral fellow at School of Medicine [2008-2010] and Member of the CONICET career Researcher [2010-2014]), has joined the Department of Biological Science at the California University of Fullerton in 2014. Dr. Ramírez’s lab focus on mechanisms of antibiotic resistance and their impact on the morbidity and mortality of bacterial infections. To this date, she has co-authored 141 primary literature articles, two book chapters, and more than 180 presentations at scientific meetings. Dr. Ramirez is the recipient of the ICAAC Young Investigator Award (2012)- and has also been awarded the “L. Donald Shields Excellence in Scholarship and Creativity Award. She has successfully established national and international collaboration to investigate and contribute to the crisis of antimicrobial resistance in multidrug resistance pathogens.
Dr. Ramireez's research interests are antibiotic resistance mechanisms, their dissemination, and their impact on the morbidity and mortality of bacterial infections. We explore various aspects of a significant nosocomial pathogen -Acinetobacter baumannii- that has a particular ability to acquire antimicrobial resistance traits and survive in the hospital environment.