Agronomist Andrea Alejandra Arrúa Alvarenga, a researcher at the CEMIT centre of the National University of Asunción, took first place in the Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences category of the ‘Paraguayan Women in Science 2025’ award.
Her work focuses on fungi and mycotoxins, aiming to prevent the risks they pose to food and to human and animal health.
She points out that fungi are everywhere, from bread to walls and even the air we breathe, and that understanding them helps keep food safe.


