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blog 7

 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 ...

blog 6

  Hello everyone: The specialization in biochemistry can affect the world in a very positive and direct way due to research in different fields, it has allowed us to get closer to the basis of life, thanks to the various media of scientific dissemination, we can know how our body works, especially in times of pandemic where the task of biochemists is essential because without their intervention there would be no diagnosis that allows a projection of the disease. In this process I see myself with a great motivation to learn and perform the work of a biochemist, it is very interesting. Besides, I want to do a doctorate and research outside Chile to be able to contribute in a better way since in this country science is not highly valued. What makes the biochemistry specialty contribute to the world are the biological and chemical investigations to the organism from a molecular point of view that can contribute in different areas such as health, biotechnology, mining, agriculture...