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Profile

Rafael Morán earned his bachelor’s degree in biotechnology from the Universidad Politécnica de Puebla and a master’s degree in biochemistry from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, supported by a CONACyT grant. His master's thesis focused on designing multifunctional peptides for cancer drug delivery. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in biophysics with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant, working on machine learning and metabolic models to enhance protein secretion in bacteria. His current interests include drug design, microbe networks, and metabolism.

  1. B Goldenbogen, SO Adler, O Bodeit, JAH Wodke, A Korman, L Bonn, X Escalera-Fanjul, JEL Haffner, M Karnetzki, M Krantz, I Maintz, L Mallis, RU Moran Torres, H Prawitz, PS Segelitz, M Seeger, R Linding and E Klipp.
    Geospatial precision simulations of community confined human interactions during SARS-CoV-2 transmission reveals bimodal intervention outcomes.
    medRxiv, 2020.
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  2. Rafael Morán-Torres, David A Castillo González, Maria Luisa Durán-Pastén, Beatriz Aguilar-Maldonado, Susana Castro-Obregón and Gabriel Del Rio.
    Selective Moonlighting Cell-Penetrating Peptides.
    Pharmaceutics 13(8), 2021.
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  3. Lukas A Rettenbacher, Klaudia Arauzo-Aguilera, Luisa Buscajoni, Angel Castillo-Corujo, Borja Ferrero-Bordera, Aliki Kostopoulou, Rafael Moran-Torres, David Núñez-Nepomuceno, Ayşegül Öktem, Arianna Palma, Beatrice Pisent, Martina Puricelli, Tobias Schilling, Aatir A Tungekar, Jonathan Walgraeve, David Humphreys, Tobias Haar, Brigitte Gasser, Diethard Mattanovich, Lloyd Ruddock and Jan Maarten Dijl.
    Microbial protein cell factories fight back?.
    Trends in Biotechnology, 2021.
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