Wilfredo Hernandez Muñíz, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Education
1993-1994 Post Doctoral Fellow, Puerto Rico Center of Tropical Marine Biotechnology, based at the Ponce School of Medicine
1993 Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Current Research, Teaching and Professional Appointments 07/2003 - Present Coordinator of the Course Problem Based Learning, Ponce School of Medicine 
07/1994 Present Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Ponce School of Medicine

Research Areas
Genetics of Asthma
Molecular Epidemiology
Awards 1999 International Who’s Who of Professionals, Who’s Who Historical Society
1999 Lexington Who’s Who among Executives and Professionals
1998 Visiting Professorship Award. Am. Soc. Cell Biol.

Recent Publications 2001 Hernández Muñiz, W., Banch, VR, and Blumenthal MN. Prevalence and Mortality of Asthma in Puerto Rico. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 107(2):916 (abstract)

1994

Hernández Muñiz, W. and Stevens, S.E. Jr. Development of motility in cultures of the cyanobacterium Mastigocladus laminosus. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 15(314):259 264.

1993

Stevens, S.E. Jr. and Hernández Muñiz, W. The developmental biology of the thermophilic cyanobacterium Mastigocladus laminosus. In P.M. Gresshoff, ed. Plant response to the environment. CRC Press, Boca Ratón, Florida, USA. pp 103 112.

1993

Hernández Muñiz, W. Genetic engineering of the cyanobacterial chromosome: deletion of the AquI restriction system and the creation of a chromosomal cloning vector. Ph.D. dissertation. The Pennsylvania State University
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