Alberto Donayre

Professor, Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia / Centro de Investigacion en Bioingenieria

Dr. Alberto J. Donayre-Torres is a Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC) in Lima, Peru. He holds a Ph.D. in Plant Genetics and Biotechnology from CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico (2009), and completed postdoctoral training at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Colorado State University (USA), where he spent five years advancing synthetic biology platforms for programmable biological systems. His research sits at the convergence of synthetic biology, advancing biomaterials using bioconjugation engineering (ACS Omega, 2025). He leads projects developing open-source tools for DNA assembly (pyBrick-DNA, J. Comp. Biol., 2023) and develops international collaboration on predictive biomaterial modeling AI-assisted. Dr. Donayre has supervised undergraduate and graduate research in recombinant protein synthesis, hydrogel functionalization, and bioconjugation — and actively contributes to the global synthetic biology community as co-organizer of international congresses and developer of open bioengineering platforms.

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