Antonio Peña Díaz is a Mexican

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 biochemist

Biochemistry

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 who received the Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology

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 (UNESCO

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, 2003) and chaired both the Mexican Academy of Sciences

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 (1992-93) and the Mexican Society of Biochemistry (1981-83).

Peña Díaz holds a bachelor's degree in Medicine and both a master's and a doctorate degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico

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 (UNAM). He is currently an emeritus professor of the Institute for Cellular Physiology of the same university and has worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Rochester

University of Rochester

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Selected works

• Bioquímica (Biochemistry, 1979)
• Las membranas de las células (The Membranes of the Cell, 1986)
• La energía y la vida: bioenergética (Energy and Life: Bioenergetics, with Georges Dreyfus Cortés, 1990)
• Cómo funciona una célula: fisiología celular (How Does a Cell Work: Cellular Physiology, 1995)
• ¿Qué es el metabolismo? (What is Metabolism?, 2001)