Scientific Advisory Board at Cures Within Reach
www.cureswithinreach.org
Advisor at the Chile-Israel Committee for Science, Technology, Innovation, and Humanities
Honors and awards:
2008 CONICYT fellowship from the Chilean Government for PhD studies.
2009-2011 Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences. This award is received by 10 Latin- American postdocs each year.
2011-2013 Postdoctoral Fellowship from the UK Gaucher Association.
2013: TR35 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) technology reviews award: selected as one of the 5 most innovative under 35 years-old Chileans. https://www.innovatorsunder35.com/the-list/andres-klein/
2013: selected as one of the “top 100 Chilean young leaders of 2013” by the “Revista del Sábado, El Mercurio”.
2019: Interviewed by The Scientist Magazine: Should we consider Parkinson’s disease a lysosomal disorder? https://www.the-scientist.com/features/is-it-time-to-rethink-parkinsons-pathology-66449
Formación
- Postdoc, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- Postdoct, Stanford University, USA
- PhD in Biological Sciences (with mention in Cellular and Molecular Biology), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Líneas de Investigación
- Systems Genetics
- Genetic Basis of Phenotypic Variability
- Precision Medicine
- Lysosomal Storage Diseases
- Parkinson's disease