Ordinary Academicians
Luis F. Larrondo completed basic and secondary studies at the British High School (Santiago, Chile) and, at the age of 17, was accepted at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), where he obtained a BSc inBiochemistry and then a Master in Biochemistry. In 1998 he entered the Ph.D. program in Cellular and MolecularBiology, at PUC, supported by a Fellowship fromt he Fundación Andes. His postdoctoral training, as a PEW Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences, was carried out at Dartmouth Medical School, in the laboratory of Dr. Jay C. Dunlap (member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA). In 2009 Larrondo returned to Chile, where he joined the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (Faculty of Biological Sciences, PUC) as an assistant professor, being, since 2021, Full Professor. In 2017, he was appointed as an HHMI International Research Scholar. The same year he also became director of the Millennium Institute for Integrative Biology, a center that under his leadership was successfully renewed in 2022 for another 5-year period.