<p style[[File:dmn_003.jpg| thumb| Sillicon Valley Meetup 2021, Stanford University|alt="text-align|400x300px]] '''School: center;">'''BE Bioingeneering - [https://utec.edu.pe UTEC Universidad de Ingeniería y tecnología UTEC] | Electronic Technician - TECSUP Tecnología<br>'''What he does now:''| ' Synthetic Biology research at UTEC, future Biotechnology founder and spreading science and entrepreneurship<br>'''What that means:'''Volunteer - ONG Matchcota Involved in building new products with biology that make the world more sustainable. Passionate about development education in emerging technologies in America Latina, especially biotechnology and Synthetic Biology. '''Contact him about:'''| FoBiotechnology, design, sustainability, k12 education, wellness and mental health, star wars or just to say hello!<br>'''Email:'''under and President - UTEC Puppy Lab | [http://universityinnovationfellowsdiego.munoz@utec.org/ UIF Candidate ][http://universityinnovationfellowsedu.org/ Stanford] '''''pe <bbr> Diego Muñoz Neira is a Bioengineering at UTEC Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología from Lima, Perú.</bbr>''</p><p style= During his first year as an undergraduate student, Diego participated in multiple engineering projects focused on social impact. One of the first project called "text-align: justify;The Solar Kitchen">I am a student . With this project, he won the project fair “Vivir la Ingeniería” UTEC in the category of Mechanical Engineering Development and Product, and graduated as the third place in the Expo Energy Efficiency Award of Led Expo Peru in 2016. He also worked on a technician Radiant Wall to Andean Houses which was presented in Congress of Bioclimatic Architecture and Renewable Energies CABER 2016. During 2016, he was elected vice-president at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics at TECSUPEngineers UTEC. For 3 yearsDuring this time, I worked the branch won the Sustainable Growth prize.<br> Diego was trained as a University Innovation Fellows Program at Stanford University in oil Fall 2018, and mining industries attended the Silicon Valley meetup in March 2018. As a Fellow, he focused his work on the fields of power generation well-being and automationmental health. That is why he founded UTEC Puppy Lab, an organization that promotes mental health through canine interaction. In 2015 I decided 2018 he was invited to give an Ignite at LOOP, also, he was part of the Bootcamp of the event where along with an interdisciplinary group worked on a solution for villagers living by the train rail. The solution was chosen as the best in its category.. This year, he participated in IDDS International Development Design Summit in Colombia, initiative created by MIT D-Lab to return co-design low-cost solutions to Lima motivated challenges faced by people living in poverty around the desire world. That same year, he was a finalist in the Disrupton Amazonia contest at UTEC, where he built a prototype of being involved mobile laboratory to collect plastic from the Amazon River and transform it into useful products. In 2019, Diego was selected to participate in IAP-MIT Design Technologies for Coffee Production in projects Colombia. They designed new technologies for agriculture with a team of students from Harvard and MIT and organizations that would allow me coffee growers. Continuing his local innovation work with communities Diego was certified as Trainer of Trainers CCB in Brasilia dictated by Amy Smith (Founding Director of MIT D-Lab). Also, he lead a STEAM educational project for children in Lis country to have promote creativity and innovation. <br> During 2020, he developed a positive impact project on my environment. I decided to study at UTEC because it was biomaterials from mushroom mycelium where he built a homemade incubator for the production of mycelium pieces as a platform that would allow me sustainable alternative to get involved polystyrene foam. In 2021, he participated in projects iGEM Global Synthetic Biology competition where he won the gold medal in the competition and was responsible for the construction and meet professors design of a low-cost Bioreactor. In 2022, Diego was selected as a member of the first cohort of the iGEM Youth Biodiversity Leadership Program and colleagues who shared one of six iGEM delegates to attend the same passion United Nations Biodiversity Conference COP15 in Montreal, Canada. Additionally, he was recently selected as mea judge for the iGEM Global Competition held in October in Paris. </pbr><p style="textHe currently works in the Synthetic Biology and Tissue Engineering laboratory at the UTEC University of Engineering and Technology, where he develops a system for CRISPR-align: justify;">'''Email:''' diegocas9 editing and regeneration in Nicotiana species.munoz@utecHe works on in vitro plant cultivation, molecular techniques, construction and evaluation of plasmids and genetic transformation.eduHis goal in the coming years is to generate a positive impact on the lives of many people and the planet through biotechnology, as well as bring science and entrepreneurship opportunities for more people in Latin America and Peru.pe</p>
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