José Vásquez Reyes

¡Hello Everyone! After 1 year and a half studying biochemistry, I have realized that this career has a great contribution to the society and the world in which we live. From understanding how a cell works to the development of procedures that allow saving the life of a human being, an animal or directly the ecosystem in which we live. Studying biochemistry is not only about learning and memorizing certain biochemical processes, but also about the ability of scientists to understand and transmit this knowledge to the population based on world well-being. In this context, biochemistry can intervene in fields of medicine, pharmacology, scientific dissemination, ecology, among others. Personally, I see myself in a few years transmitting my scientific knowledge to the objective and non-objective population, being part of the advances and changes in science, specifically in the field of biomedicine, that arise every year always with the intention of ensuring a science that is used for th

¡Hello Everyone! Today I will talk about a Chilean biochemist who I admire, his name is Ramón Latorre ( National Prize of Natural Sciences 2002).  Ramon Latorre is the director of the Valparaíso interdisciplinary neuroscience center. He was born in Santiago de Chile in 1941. He has done deep research and great work in the field of biophysics, specifically in the study of ion channels. He was part of a select group of scientists (such as Mario Luxoro, Eduardo Rojas, María Cecilia Hidalgo, among us others) who worked in the Montemar laboratory where very revolutionary and surprising findings were made in the field of molecular physiology. He is one of the most cited Chilean scientists in research worldwide and was the first to demonstrate the existence of so-called "ion channels" that led him to discover that women are protected against heart disease due to their cellular composition. I have deep admiration for him not only for his studies in ionic channels that I am currentl