Principal Investigators

Maria Rosa Bono has a degree in Chemistry from the University of Chile and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Paris. In 1978 she obtained a degree in Immunology at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and later she joined Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow at Jack Strominger’s Lab. In 1981 she returned to Chile and joined the Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Chile. She co-founded with Dr. Rosemblatt the Laboratory of Immunology (Inmunolab) at this Faculty, and has mentored several undergraduate and graduate students. She is currently Professor of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Chile.

Mario Rosemblatt is a Chilean immunologist. His research established that dendritic cells are responsible for imprinting the tissue-specific homing of T lymphocytes. He is currently Executive Director of Fundacion Ciencia para la Vida (FCV), a non profit institution that carries out scientific and technological research. He is Immunology Professor at the University of Chile and Universidad Nacional Andres Bello (Santiago, Chile) and Adjunct Professor at Dartmouth Medical School. Mario Rosemblatt earned his Ph.D. degree in immunology at Wayne State University. He has been Research Fellow in Medicine at Harvard University (1973) joining the group of Dr. Edgard Haber, Assistant Professor at Brown University (1976), Investigator at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute (1978) and the Association Against Cancer in France (1981). In 1983, he returned to Chile and joined the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Chile. He was Chairman of the Biology Department and Director of the team that established the degree in Biotechnology at the University of Chile, acting as the first Director of this program. In 1997 he joined the Fundación Ciencia para la Vida acting as its first Executive Director.

Daniela Sauma has a degree in biochemistry from the University of Chile and obtained her PhD at the Faculty of Sciences of the same University. She completed her postdoctoral studies at Fundacion Ciencia & Vida and in 2013 she joined the Department of Biology of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Chile. Dr. Sauma has directed several undergraduate students and has received several national awards and distinctions including the “For Women in Science Award” of L’ Oreal , UNESCO and CONICYT and Dr. Hermann Niemeyer medal awarded by the Chilean Society for Biochemistry. In 2009 she was recognized as one of the “100 young leaders ” in El Mercurio.