He earned his degree in Biochemistry from the University of Chile and a Ph.D. from Wayne State University (USA). His international experience includes roles as Research Fellow in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Research Associate at the Association pour la Recherche Contre le Cancer (France), and Adjunct Professor at Dartmouth Medical School.

In Chile, he served as Director of the Department of Biology at the University of Chile and co-founded the Molecular Biotechnology undergraduate program. He also coordinated the Biology section of FONDECYT and was President of both the Chilean Society of Immunology and the Chilean Society of Cellular Biology. He is a founding member of Fundación Ciencia & Vida.

With over 100 scientific publications and 10 patents, he is a member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences. His work has been recognized with several awards, including the 2008 Academic Excellence Award (University of Chile), the Merit Award (Universidad Andrés Bello), and the Basic Science Mentor Award from the Transplantation Society (USA).

Currently, he is a Professor at the University of Chile and Universidad San Sebastián, Executive Director of Fundación Ciencia & Vida, and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Immunology and Microbiology at Universidad San Sebastián.