Jorge Allende
| Jorge Allende | |
|---|---|
| Born |
11 November 1934 Cartago, Costa Rica |
| Residence | Santiago, Chile |
| Nationality | Chile |
| Fields | Biochemistry Molecular Biology |
| Institutions | University of Chile National Institutes of Health |
| Alma mater | Louisiana State University Yale University Rockefeller University |
| Doctoral advisor | Frederic Richards |
| Other academic advisors | Fritz Albert Lipmann Marshall Warren Nirenberg |
| Known for | Protein biosynthesis, Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICBM) at Universidad de Chile |
| Influences | Enrico Fermi |
| Notable awards | National Academy of Sciences, Great Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil, National Prize for Nature Sciences, Chile, The puRkwa Prize |
Jorge Eduardo Allende, is a Chilean biochemist and biophysicist known for his contributions to the understanding of proteic biosynthesis and how transfer RNA is generated, and the regulation of maturation of amphibian eggs. He has been a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences since 2001, and was awarded with the Chilean National Prize for Nature Sciences in 1992.
Jorge Allende was born in Cartago, Costa Rica, son of Octavio Allende Echeverría, Chilean Consul in the city of Puntarenas, and Amparo Rivera Ortiz, a Costa Rican artist. Because of his father's job as a diplomat, he spent his childhood years between Costa Rica, Chile and the United States. He finished high school in a Jesuit School in New Orleans, Louisiana, where his father was appointed as the Chilean Consul. Subsequently he studied at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He obtained the Bachelor of Science in Chemistry degree in 1957.
He carried out his doctoral studies at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1961 under the tutorship of Prof. F.M. Richards. He did post doctoral work with Prof. Fritz Lipmann at Rockefeller University and with Marshall Warren Nirenberg at NIH.
During the 1960s, his research was focused on protein synthesis, a field in which he made crucial contributions. In the 1970s he was a pioneer in studying the mechanism of hormonal induction of oocyte maturation. His later research is focused in two ubiquitous protein kinases, CK1 and CK2, involved in the phosphorylation of key cellular proteins.
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