Stephany Villota, PhD     

 stephany.villota.v@gmail.com

Grupo de Investigación: Enfermedades Infecciosas y Tropicales

Líneas de investigación:

  Investigación actual: 

  Estudios:

• 2019. PhD en Medicina Genética. - The University of Nottingham Nottingham, Reino Unido
• 2012. Licenciada en Ciencias Biológicas. - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador Quito, Ecuador

  Cargo actual: 

• Investigadora Adjunta en el Centro de Investigación para la Salud en América Latina.

  Publicaciones recientes: 

• Lu, S., Duplat, D., Benitez-Bolivar, P., León, C., Villota, S. D., Veloz-Villavicencio, E., ... & Bremner, R. (2022). Multicenter international assessment of a SARS-CoV-2 RT-LAMP test for point of care clinical application. PLoS One, 17(5), e0268340. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268340
• Carrazco-Montalvo, A., Ponce, P., Villota, S. D., Quentin, E., Muñoz-Tobar, S., Coloma, J., & Cevallos, V. (2022). Establishment, Genetic Diversity, and Habitat Suitability of Aedes albopictus Populations from Ecuador. Insects, 13(3), 305. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13030305
• Chicaiza, J., Villota, S. D., Vinueza-Naranjo, P. G., & Rumipamba-Zambrano, R. (2022). Contribution of deep-learning techniques toward fighting COVID-19: a bibliometric analysis of scholarly production during 2020. IEEE Access, 10, 33281-33300. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3159025
• Villota, S. D., Nipaz, V. E., Carrazco-Montalvo, A., Hernandez, S., Waggoner, J. J., Ponce, P., ... & Cevallos, V. (2021). Alternative RNA extraction-free techniques for the real-time RT-PCR detection of SARS-CoV-2 in nasopharyngeal swab and sputum samples. Journal of virological methods, 298, 114302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jviromet.2021.114302

  Orcid:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3250-6589

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephany-Villota