Sergio Arias Cazorla (born 1933) is a human geneticist who worked as a

geneticist A geneticist is a biologist or physician who studies genetics, the science of genes, heredity, and variation of organisms. A geneticist can be employed as a scientist or a lecturer. Geneticists may perform general research on genetic process ...

in the

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(Spanish: Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciónes Científicas).

Career

He first started studying medicine at the

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, in

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, from 1952 to 1959, then did postgraduate studies in internal medicine from 1959 to 1961. He worked as a

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professor from 1952 to 1953 at the ''Escuela de Capacitación Forestal de El Junquito'' (English: ''Forest Capacitation School El Junquito''), then from 1964 to 1966 he became a fellow in

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at the

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, then in June 1969 he founded the ''Human Genetics laboratory,'' at the ''Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research,'' which he created to do research on hereditary/genetic disorders that are present in Venezuela, then from 1970 to 1975 he worked as a

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professor at the ''Universidad Simón Bolívar'' (English: Simón Bolívar University), and finally from 1975 to 1996 he worked as a

human genetics Human genetics is the study of inheritance as it occurs in Human, human beings. Human genetics encompasses a variety of overlapping fields including: classical genetics, cytogenetics, molecular genetics, biochemical genetics, genomics, populatio ...

professor at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, where he documented the first case of and consequently discovered Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciónes Científicas syndrome, or IVIC syndrome for short.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cazorla, Sergio Arias Living people 20th-century Venezuelan biologists Scientists from Caracas Johns Hopkins University fellows Central University of Venezuela alumni Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) alumni 1952 births