Jorge Allende

Who is Jorge Allende?

Jorge Eduardo Allende is a Professor at the University of Chile. He has contributed to the understanding of 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.

He was born in Cartago, Costa Rica, son of Octavio Allende Echeverría and Amparo Rivera Ortiz on November 11, 1934.

Between 1947 and 1949, he studied in the Liceo Aleman of Santiago. In 1949 he moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, where his father had been appointed Chilean Consul. He studied and graduated from Jesuit High School and subsequently studied in the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, La. In this University he obtained a degree of Bachelor of Sciences in Chemistry in 1957. He carried out doctoral studies at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1961 under the tutorship of Prof. F.M. Richards.

On September 16, 1961, he married Catherine Connelly in Holyoke, Massachusetts and with her, he raised a family of four children: Miguel Luis, Juan Ignacio, Jorge Eduardo and Maria Amparo and 10 grand children.