Alejandra Bravo


María Alejandra Bravo de la Parra is a Mexican biochemist who was laureated with the 2010 L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in ScienceLatin America for her work on a bacterial toxin that acts as a powerful insecticide. Bravo has co-authored numerous papers with her husband Dr. Mario Soberon.
Bravo is a researcher at the Institute of Molecular Microbiology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She holds a bachelor, master and doctoral degrees in Basic Biomedical Research from the same university and she is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.