Sex: Female
Education:
- University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, 1994
- University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, M.S. in Chemistry, 1969
- University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, BS Chemistry, 1964
Field of Specialization:
Biological Sciences, Molecular Biology
Researches:
Santos, A.D, Kashmiri, S.V.S., Padlan, E.A., (2000) Generation of Designer Antibodies Proceedings of the JSPS-DOST Symposium on Current Trends in Molecular Biology
Espino, S.S., Kohn, A.J., Villanueva, J.A., Heralde, F.M., Corneli, P.S., Concepcion, G.P., Olivera, B.M., Santos, A.D., (2008) Feeding behavior, phylogeny, and toxinology of Conus furvus Reeve,Gastropoda:Neogastropoda:Conidae) Nautilus Volume 122
Heralde, F.M., Imperial, J., Bandyopadhyay, P.K., Olivera, B.M., Concepcion, G.P., Santos, A.D., (2008) A rapidly diverging superfamily of peptide toxins in venomous Gemmula species Toxicon Volume 51
Heralde, F.M., Watkins, M., Ownby, J.P., Bandyopadhyay, P.K., Santos, A.D., Concepcion, G.P., Olivera, B.M. , (2007) Molecular Phylogeny of some Indo-Pacific genera in the subfamily Turrinae H. Adams and A. Adams, (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) The Nautilus Volume 121
Santos, A.D., McIntosh, J.M., Hillyard, D.R., Cruz, L.J., Olivera, B.M. , (2004) The A-Superfamily of Conotoxins Journal of Biological Chemistry Volume 279
De Pascalis, R., Iwahashi, M., Tamura, M., Padlan, E.A., Gonzalez, N.R, Santos, A.D., Giuliano, M., Schuck, P., Schlom, J., Kashmiri, S.V.S. , (2002) Grafting of Abbreviated Complementarity-Determining Regions Containing Specificity-Determining Residues Essential for Ligand Contact to Engineer a Less Immunogenic Humanized Monoclonal Antibody Journal of Immunology Volume 169
Santos, A.D., Padlan, E.A., (2000) Does mRNA Translation Using an Alternative Initiation Site Cause Huntington Disease Medical Hypothesis Volume 54
McIntosh, J.M., Santos, A.D., Olivera, B.M., (1999) Conus Peptides Targeted to Specific Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Subtypes Annual Review of Biochemistry Volume 68
Olivera, B.M., Walker, C., Cartier, G.E., Hooper, D., Santos, A.D., Schoenfeld, R., Shetty, R., Watkins, M., Bandyopadhyang, P., Hillyard, D.R., (1999) Speciation of Cone Snails and Interspecific Hyperdivergence of their Venom Peptides Potential Evolutionary Significance of Introns Annals of the NY Academy of Science, L. Caporale, ed. Volume 870
Santos, A.D., Kashmiri, S.V.S., Horan-Hand, P., Schlom, J., Padlan, E.A. , (1999) Generation and Characterization of a Single-Gene-Encoded Single-Chain-Tetravalent Anti-tumor Antibody Journal of Clinical Cancer Research
Santos, A.D., Padlan, E.A., (1998) Development of More Efficacious Antibodies for Medical Therapy and Diagnosis Academic Press Volume 60
Santos, A.D., (1992) Heterodimeric structure of the spider toxin Ω-Agatoxin IA revealed by precursor analysis and mass spectroscopy Journal of Biological Chemistry Volume 267
Santos, A.D , (1998) An O-Glycosylated neuroexcitatory conus peptide Biochemistry Volume 37
Santos, A.D., (2008) Cloning. Straight Talk on Biotechnology/ Ateneo de Manila Press Volume 1
Awards:
- Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA , 1995-1998
- Exchange Scientist, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
- Research Grantee, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
- Natatanging Guro, Gawad Chancellor, 2006
- Professorial Chair, , 2002 - present
- International Publications Award, University of the Philippines System, 1999-2000, 2002, 2004, 2007-2008
- Eusebio Y. Garcia Recognition Award (National) for his work on Molecular Biology, National Research Council of the Philippines , 2000
- Most Outstanding Surigaonon in the Field of Science, Rotary Club of Metro Surigao