An expert of my field.

To choose an expert of my field I wanted to be someone of Chili because I think that’s important to know who the important scientist of the country are.

So, I’m going to talk about Pablo Valenzuela, he was born in Chili, he studied in the “Universidad de Chile” biochemistry, has a Doctor in Chemistry in the Northwestern University in Illinois and a Postdoctoral in the University of California in San Francisco. In 1981 he founded a biotechnology company in California: Chiron Corporation.

He was the responsible of all the research of the company, between the more important of them there is the development of a technology capable of the production of foreign proteins in yeast, like the insulin or some viral antigens used for vaccines, with this technology he was the one that discovered a vaccine for the Hepatitis B and the existence of the Hepatitis C and the blood test to know who has it. Also, under the direction of the doctor Valenzuela, in Chiron was copied and sequenced the VHI.

The reason why I like, and I choose him is because he’s my example that a Chilean scientist can be recognize in the international community and can do an important contribution for the humanity.