July 2025
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August 2025
Ana Rada Tarifa > Other Awards
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Awards

July 2025 • Winner of first place in the “VII Bolivian Scientific Contest on Rare or Uncommon Diseases” organized by the Ministry of Health and Sports, Major University of San Andrés, National University Siglo XX, Private University Franz Tamayo, and Major Universi

August 2025 • Recognition for dedication and constant effort, significantly contributing to institutional development Faculty of Medicine, UMSA. La Paz, Bolivia August 2025

About me

Ana Rada Tarifa has a Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry and Pharmacy (Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, UMSA. La Paz – Bolivia). She has a Masters Degree in Public Health with a major in Epidemiology. She works at the Cytogenetics Unit, Genetics Institute, Medicine School UMSA. She is part of the technical scientific council of the Genetics Institute.

She was a member of the Regional Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Council for Science (RCLAC ICSU) and Past-President of the Regional Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Council of Science (RCLAC ISC). She was Focal Point for Bolivia in the Women for Science Program of the Inter-American Association of Science Academies (IANAS)

Ana is Co-Chair of the Liaison Committee of the Regional Focal Point-LAC of the International Science Council (LC ISC RFP-LAC). She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences – Bolivia, TWAS Fellow, member of the Latin American Network of Biological Dosimetry (LBDNet), Full member of the OWSD and member of the Bolivian Genetics Society.

She has published several scientific articles. The main research topics in which she is involved are: Human Genetics, Cytogenetics, and Biological dosimetry.

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Other Memberships/Affiliations
Biochemistry and Pharmacy College
Sociedad Boliviana de Mutagenesis, Carcinogenesis y Teratogenesis Ambiental (SBOMCTA)
Sociedad Boliviana de Genética – SOBOGENH
Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Bolivia (ANCB)
Internacional Science Council (ISC)
The Latin American Biological Dosimetry Network (LBDNet)
THE WORLD ACADEMY OF SCIENCES for the advancement of sciences in developing countries (TWAS)

Degrees:

2016
Master
Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences
1998
Undergraduate
Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences

Publications resulting from Research
- Omar García, Ana Rada-Tarifa, Erika Lafuente-Álvarez, Jorge E. González-Mesa, Tania Mandina, Gabriela Muñoz-Velastegui, Yanara Astudillo-Silva, Norma Monjagata, Sara Aguilar-Coronel & Aida Falcón de Vargas. The BioDoseNet image repository used as a training tool for the dicentric assay. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION BIOLOGY
2019, VOL. 95, NO. 12, 1659–1667
https://doi.org/10.1080/09553002.2019.1665211
- Dra. Darinka T. Contreras Castro, Dra. Beatriz Luna Barrón, Dr. Gonzalo Taboada López, Dra. Ana Rada Tarifa, Dra. Erika Lafuente Álvarez, (2017): FRECUENCIA DE ABERRACIONES CROMOSÓMICAS EN PACIENTES DEL INSTITUTO DE GENÉTICA – UMSA PERIODO 2011-2015. Revista “Cuadernos”, 58(2) 14-19
- Dra. Luna Barrón Beatriz, Dr. Gonzalo Taboada López, Dra. Maria Salete Queiroz de Tejerina, Dra. Valeria Aillón López, Lic. Irma Arce Quint, Lic. Eunise Mónica Barreda Luján, Mgs. Zonia Betty Barrón Achá, Univ. Luiza Boyan Montes, Dr. José Liders Burgos Zuleta, Dr. Franz Buitrago Barahona, Univ. Darinka Teresa Contreras Castro, Dr. Ivar Chambi Huanaco, Dra. Aida Choque Churqui, Dra. Vannia Espinosa Pinto, Lic. Esp. Ximena Foronda Clavijo, Dra. Heydi Carmiña García Salgueiro, Dra. Wendy S. Guisbert Sánchez, Dra. Claudia Heredia Chucatini, Univ. Norka Hauzateng Sotomayor, Dra. Erika Lafuente Álvarez, Dr. Mauricio A. Lozada Salcedo, Dra. Alcira Miranda Mercado, Dr. Rolando Paz Bonilla, Dra. Ana Rada Tarifa, Lic. Loyola Riveros Gonzales, Dra. Sandra Siacar Bacarreza, Dra. Karen E. Vargas Araya, Dr. Carlos Salinas Salmón. (2017): COMORBILIDADES EN PERSONAS CON SÍNDROME DE DOWN, HABITANTES DE LA PAZ - BOLIVIA, 2015 COMORBIDITIES IN DOWN´S SYNDROME PEOPLE, RESIDENTS OF LA PAZ - BOLIVIA, 2015. Rev Med La Paz, 23(1); Enero - Junio 2017
- Geraldine Montero Camacho, Gonzalo Taboada, Erika Lafuente, Beatriz Luna Barrón, Ana María Rada Tarifa (2015): Trastornos de diferenciación sexual con genitales ambiguos en pacientes del Instituto de Genética la Paz- Bolivia. Periodo 2002-2012. Estudio Clínico-Genético. Rev SCientifica 2015, 13(1): 7-12
- Dra. Beatriz Luna Barrón, Dr. Gonzalo López Taboada, Dra. Ana Rada Tarifa, Dra. Erika Álvarez Lafuente, Dr. José Burgos Liders Zuleta, Lic. Ruddy Luna Barrón, MD. Carmiña Heidy Garcia Rodriguez, MD. Daneyba Lourdes Calderón Guzmán, Lic . Emma Tórrez Tola, MSc. Karina Salazar. (2014): Diagnóstico Integral Prenatal de Síndrome de Down en La Paz-Bolivia, Correlación Sérica, Ecográfica, Citogenética y Molecular A Propósito de un Caso. Rev Med La Paz, 20 (2); Julio-Diciembre 2014: 43-49
- Beatriz Luna Barrón, José Burgos Liders Zuleta, Taboada Gonzalo López, Ana Rada Tarifa, Erika Alvarez Lafuente. Diagnóstico Clínico y Molecular de síndrome de Rett. A Propósito de un caso. Rev. Soc Bol Ped 2014; 53 (1) : 8-11
- GERMAN MELEAN, ANETH VASQUEZ MICHEL, ELVIN MOLLINEDO PEREZ, ANA RADA TARIFA, PABLO ALMARAZ OSSIO, MIRTHA CAMACHO, JORGE SAINZ. (2009). Detección de mutaciones en los genes rpoβ y katG asociados a resistencia en cepas de Mycobacterium tuberculosis de Bolivia. Revista “Cuadernos del Hospital de Clínicas”, 54(1) 20-26
- RICCARDI L., MELEAN G., RADA A., TIRADO N., GENUARDI M., RICCI U. (2009): Genetic profiling of Bolivian population using 15 STR markers of forensic importance. Legal Medicine, Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages 149-151.
- AILLON LOPEZ, Valeria; TABOADA LOPEZ, Gonzalo; LAFUENTE ALVAREZ, Érika y RADA TARIFA, Ana. FREQUENCY OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY OF GENETIC ETIOLOGY DUE TO CRYPTIC CHROMOSOME ARRANGEMENTS. Rev Cient Cienc Méd [online]. 2022, vol.25, n.2, pp.125-132. Epub 31-Dic-2022. ISSN 1817-7433.
https://doi.org/10.51581/rccm.v25i2.510.
- González Mesa, J. E., Alem Glison, D., Chaves-Campos, F. A., Ortíz Morales, F., Valle Bourrouet, L., Abarca Ramírez, M., Verdejo V., Di Giorgio M., Radl A., Taja M., Deminge M., Rada-Tarifa A., … Martínez-López, W. (2024). LBDNet interlaboratory comparison for the dicentric chromosome assay by digitized image analysis applying weighted robust statistical methods. International Journal of Radiation Biology, 100(7), 1019–1028. https://doi.org/10.1080/09553002.2024.2356556
- Romero, I., Mandina Cardoso, T., Cabitto, M., Deminge, M., Rearte, J. F., Vaquero, H., Farias de Lima F., Esposito M., Melo L., Lafuente-Álvarez E., Rada-Tarifa A., … García Lima, O. (2025). LBDNet inter-laboratory comparison at high doses of ionizing radiation using the dicentric plus caffeine assay. International Journal of Radiation Biology, 101(6), 636–651. https://doi.org/10.1080/09553002.2025.2494554

ISC Global Knowledge Dialogue for LAC
2025
icon-pin-location Santiago, Chile
Muscat Global Knowledge Dialogue and Third ISC General Assembly
2025
icon-pin-location Muscat, Oman
ISC RFP-LAC Liaison Committee Meeting, 2nd Diplomatic Forum of LAC Ambassadors
2025
icon-pin-location Santiago, Chile
TWAS 17th General Conference
2025
icon-pin-location Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Awards

July 2025 • Winner of first place in the “VII Bolivian Scientific Contest on Rare or Uncommon Diseases” organized by the Ministry of Health and Sports, Major University of San Andrés, National University Siglo XX, Private University Franz Tamayo, and Major Universi

August 2025 • Recognition for dedication and constant effort, significantly contributing to institutional development Faculty of Medicine, UMSA. La Paz, Bolivia August 2025