Alexis Kalergis
Bio
Dr. Alexis Kalergis is a Full Professor at the Schools of Biological Sciences and Medicine of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a Doctor in Microbiology and Immunology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He did two postdoctoral studies at Albert Einstein and the Rockefeller University. He has been Visiting Professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Universities of Nantes, France, of Iowa in USA and of Aristotle, Greece. He has given more than 400 national and international conferences and published 330 scientific articles. It has trained many young scientists, several of whom hold academic positions and received awards such as the Avonni National Innovation Award, the Merit Award, the World Intellectual Property Organization Gold Medal, the Abdon Cifuentes Award that honors scientists with an impact on public policy, the Avonni Award for Innovative Career, and the Image Spirit Award from Chile. He directs the Millennium Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy, a center of excellence in international translational science. He has participated as an advisor in government and legislative commissions and as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the ICGEB (a United Nations Organization) and of the Presidential Advisory Council for Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation of Chile. He directed the studies needed to complete the development of a COVID19 vaccine used for mass vaccination in Chile and other countries.
