2015_02_20_CIE_nicolas

Raúl Nicolás Mateos, graduate in Biochemistry by the School of Sciences of the University of Navarra, has obtained a scholarship from the University of Tokyo to carry out a project in the field of bioinformatics. The young man will travel to Japan where he will design a database for proteins that have been mutated in the laboratory. The work will be directed by Dr. Horton, an expert in cellular sublocalization of proteins and analysis of protein sequences, and will also include "an evolutionary study of certain proteins with transport function", explains the former student.

"This scholarship has been my goal since I left university but I needed to improve my English level so I decided to focus on it and at the same time I did an internship at the CIMA Lasarte and his team for more than half a year. I also did the Master's Degree of training of academic staff of Education Secundaria", he says.

Raul Mateos will move to Tokyo where he hopes to take advantage of the extendable nature of the financial aid and continue his programs of study. "Japan is a country that I have always been passionate about, so when I learned about the existence of this scholarship, I realized that it was the perfect opportunity to unite my passion for the country and for my programs of study".

As for his time at the University of Navarra, he assures that it has not only helped him because of the prestige and level educational of the academic center, "but also because of the invaluable support he has received from numerous professors over the years, without whom it would not have been possible for me to obtain this scholarship".