Susan Espetia Anco

Biography:

Susan Espetia Anco is a Biologist from the National University of Altiplano, she holds a Master’s degree in Microbiology from the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia and has completed additional specialty studies in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the National University Federico Villareal. She serves as the Principal Investigator and Co-Responsible for the HIV genotyping area at the National Reference Laboratory for Sexually Transmitted Viruses (LRN VTS) of the National Institute of Health. Her work focuses on processing HIV genotyping tests to evaluate resistance to antiretrovirals in patients receiving ART, and she also participates in the molecular diagnosis follow-up of children exposed to HIV. Previously, she was a research assistant at the Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory of the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia. She has contributed to several research projects and publications on Chagas disease, rotavirus, norovirus, and HIV.