Our partners Cecilia Hidalgo and Sergio Lavandero (Former President) are unanimously elected as President and Vice-President of the Chilean Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Chile

The full members of the Chilean Academy of Sciences elected their board of directors, corresponding to the period 2022 – 2024.By unanimous decision, Drs. María Cecilia Hidalgo and Sergio Lavandero as President and Vice President of the Academyrespectively. Dr. Hidalgo,National Prize of Natural Sciences of the year 2006, is a full professor at the University of Chile and renews her position as president, which it has held since 2019. For his part, Dr. Lavandero is also a full professor at the Casa de Bello and director of the FONDAP Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS).

The appointment of Professor Lavandero is a recognition of the integral work he has carried out for more than 32 years as a scientist, dedicated to the area of signal transduction of cardiovascular diseases. In addition to training a new generation of professionals, scientific disseminator for our community and with a deep commitment to academic administration and management.

"It is an honor to be part of the board of the Chilean Academy of Sciences"Said Dr. Lavandero, adding that one of his goals is to continue creating ties between the scientific community and society,"Together we can continue to raise ideas about the dissemination of knowledge, culture and scientific knowledge in Chile," he said.

For its part, theDr. Hidalgo thanked the trust that was placed in her again. "We hope to be able to continue with our work, there is still much to be done in terms of promoting science in our country, for example, in achieving a higher rate of scientists per inhabitant, encouraging greater investment in science by the State and private, and encouraging more women in this field every day."

Public training

Professor Sergio Lavandero was fully trained at the University of Chile, where he obtained the undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Pharmacy and later reached the degree of Doctorate in Biochemistry.

The academic of the Faculty of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile, has 307 publications in international journals indexed with editorial committee, 5 book chapters, 29 articles in national journals and 5 patents.

He currently serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Since 2013 Dr. Sergio Lavandero founded and directs the first Chilean Center of Excellence for the study of Chronic Diseases, ACCDiS (Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases) formed by the University of Chile and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Its objective is to carry out transdisciplinary frontier research in cardiovascular diseases and cancer; to train advanced human capital, develop a network of national and international scientific collaboration and contribute to the development of public health policies.