Juan C. Sáez

1974-1979. Biochemist (equivalent to M.Sci. in Biochemistry), University of Concepción, Concepción. Chile. 1983-1986. M.Sci. and Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Albert Einstein Coll. Med., Yeshiva Universidad, Bronx, N.Y. 2018-present. Professor, Neuroscience Institute, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile. 2004-2021. Professor, Dept. Physiology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. 2007-present. Visiting Professor, Dept. Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, N.Y., USA. (2019-present). International Member of the National Academy of Science (NAS) USA. (2017-present) Academic Member of the Latin American Academy of Science (ACAL). 2014. Winner of the VII UC Patent Contest. 2010. Winner of the II Competition of Intellectual Property, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Inventor in one approved patent. Founder of one Chilean spinoff. Continuously funded by National and international funding agencies. PUBLICATIONS: 222 Scientific publications (Google Scholar Total citations = 23.017, H= 76). Mentor of 26 undergraduate students and 39 graduate students and 11 post-Doctoral trainees. Since his graduate studies he has generated new knowledge on the role and function of membrane channels that coordinate numerous cell functions in vertebrates, invertebrates and unicellular organisms.