Carmen Clapp MS, PhD

Dr. Carmen Clapp, Ph.D. was born in Mexico City, where she obtained her B.S. degree in Biology from the Metropolitan University and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the National University of Mexico (UNAM). Soon thereafter she joined the University of California Berkeley for Postdoctoral training in Endocrinology. Dr. Clapp is currently a Full Professor at the Neurobiology Institute of UNAM in Juriquilla, Queretaro. Her work includes more than one hundred peer-reviewed publications. She has received various international awards including Biotechnology Career Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, Senior Scientist Fellowship from the Ministry of Research and Technology of France, John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and International Research Scholar Award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Mexican Academy of Sciences Research Award, the Young-Investigator Award from UNAM, the Research and Development Award from the Mexican Chamber of Pharmaceutical Laboratories, etc Dr. Clapp’s major achievements concern the mechanisms underlying the diversity of hormonal actions. More specifically, Carmen Clapp discovered that proteolytic cleavage of the hormone prolactin generates a family of peptides (vasoinhibins) that have unique anti-angiogenic actions, which are crucial to many normal and pathological processes.