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Hello: The expert's name is Pablo Valenzuela. I admire this person because he is a biochemist graduated from the University of Chile with a great career, several studies that helped contribute to health worldwide and won a national award. Pablo made the first vaccine against hepatitis B and the discovery of the virus that causes hepatitis C, thanks to his great technological impact. He also cloned and sequenced the genome of the AIDS virus at the biotechnology company Chiron Corporation. He is a Biochemist from the University of Chile, PhD in Chemistry from Northwestern University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California in San Francisco, he is a pioneer of industrial biotechnology. He founded the biotechnology company Chiron in 1981, together with Dr. William Rutter and Dr. Edward Penhoet, and was until 1994 the Vice President of Research and Development. Under his direction, scientists sequenced the genome of the AIDS virus, discovered the hepatitis C virus ...