Ramón Rogelio Latorre de la Cruz (born October 29, 1941) is a Chilean biochemist,[1][2] The winner of Chile's National Prize for Natural Sciences in 2002,[3] he has been recognized for his investigations in the field of the ionic channels of cellular membranes.
[4][5] He studied secondary in the Chilean School Jose Victorino Lastarria.
Returned to Chile and held the position in the Faculty of Sciences of assistant professor.
Two years later he worked in the Department of Physiological and Pharmacological Sciences of the University of Chicago as an assistant professor and in 1977 he began to perform his teaching task at the School of Medicine of the University of Harvard.
The following year he founded with the physicist Claudio Teitelboim the Center for Scientific Studies of Santiago, Who later moved to Valdivia.