Filipino Scientists

• Queena Lee-Chua


  identified 10 outstanding Filipino scientists who have made significant contribution in the Philippine science
• Ramon Cabanos Barba


  • developed process causing flowering and fruiting of mango trees 3x/year
  • advanced mango export industry
  • his research on tissue culture of many horticultural crops, bananas, cassava, and sugarcane among others, enabled the development of methodologies in physiology and plant breeding
• Josefino Cacas Comiso 


  • led to new insights into processes in the polar regions including
  • a flight over a nuclear submarine near the North Pole that demonstrated the feasibility of measuring sea ice thickness from space.
  • a member of satellite sensor teams and has developed algorithms for the retrieval of sea ice concentration, surface temperature, and clouds.
• Jose Bejar Cruz Jr.


  
  

  • one of the original founders of the Allerton Conference on Circuits, Systems, and Computers
  • contributed to theory and practice of automatic control
  • control of leader-follower systems
• Lourdes Jansuy Cruz


  recognized for her contributions to the biochemistry of conotoxins.
• Fabian Millar Dayrit


  • research on herbal medicine
  • established the National Chemistry Instrumentation Center (NCIC) when the first high field Fourier transform-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer and high resolution Mass Spectrometer (MS) in the country were obtained under ESEP
• Rafael Dineros Guerrero III


  He is recognized for his pioneering work on the development of sex reversal and hatchery techniques on tilapia, making him known as the Father of Tilapia Sex-Reversal
• Enrique Mapua Ostrea Jr. 


  In his research, he developed a meconium drug test which has been proven as one of the most sensitive tests to detect the presence of illegal substances in newborns
• Lilian Formalejo Patena


  • discovered a breed of calamansi and seedless pomelo and discovered micropropagation which established the banana industry in the Philippines.

  • an inventor of leaf-bud cutting in cassava
• Mari-Jo Panganiban Ruiz


  Expert in graph theory and operations research and her expertise is valued not only in the academe but in different industries and sectors as well
• Gregory Ligot Tangonan


  • His work has realized groundbreaking advances in ultra-high-performance circuitry, and innovative computing and communications
  • His research and inventions operate in space, on aircraft, in automobiles, and in a variety of consumer products that make our world safer, support our national security and improve our quality of life
• Cesar Saloma


  He led the development of a method to generate high-contrast images of semiconductor sites via one photon optical beam-induced current imaging and confocal reflectance microscopy
• Edgardo Gomez


  He led the world's first national-scale assessment of damage to coral reefs leading to international conservation initiatives such as the replanting of corals.
• William Padolina


  Is recognized for his significant contributions in the field of natural products chemistry, coconut chemistry, biotechnology and in management of research and development
• Angel Alcala


  First Filipino scientist to engage in comprehensive studies concerning Philippine reptiles and amphibians.