Prof. Manuel F Varela

Varela has a Ph.D. with honors in biomedical sciences from UNM and was a postdoc under Tom Wilson at Harvard Medical School. Varela moved to ENMU and studied bacterial sugar transporters, drug resistance, and multidrug efflux pumps from MRSA and Vibrio cholerae. He used comparative genomics to identify novel antimicrobial targets in cholera-causing bacteria. The Varela laboratory has studied the modulation of antimicrobial efflux. Varela has published numerous primary papers, invited reviews, book chapters, and books, including “The Inventions and Discoveries of the World’s Most Famous Scientists” in 2018, “Enter the World of Microbiology: Interviews about the World’s Most Famous Microbiologists” (2019), “An Overview of Biomedical Scientists and Their Discoveries” (2020), “Biochemistry and Biochemists: Who Were They and What Did They Discover?” (2020), “The World of Molecular Biology” (2021), “The Life and Times of the World’s Most Famous Female Scientists” (2022), and “The Most Influential Scientists Who Changed the World” (2024).