Aniela Wozniak

UC School of Medicine, Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering

• Development of anti-streptococcal vaccine.
• Development and validation of clinical diagnostic methods for bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections.
• Study of antibiotic resistance mechanisms and development of methods for their detection.

Dr. Aniela Wozniak holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences and a Master’s degree in Biotechnology from the University of the Republic in Uruguay, and a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Chile. She is currently a tenured Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Laboratories, teaching molecular microbiology to students in the Medicine, Dentistry, Nutrition, and Biochemistry programs at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Dr. Wozniak is also the Technical Coordinator of the Molecular Microbiology Laboratory, where she oversees the validation and implementation of new molecular microbiological diagnostic techniques.