Where I work: Marcelo Hill works to understand the body’s immune system and how it responds to cancer
Marcelo Hill is founder and chief scientific officer at ARDAN Pharma in Santa Fé, Argentina, and an immunologist at the Pasteur Institute of Montevideo. Credit: Pablo Albarenga forYou could say that medicine is in my blood. My father was a surgeon. My grandfather, Rafael Hill, was also a medical doctor. In the 1960s, he founded the Evangelical Hospital in Montevideo.
I did my PhD and postdoc in France before returning to Uruguay to launch my laboratory at the Pasteur Institute of Montevideo, where I work with a very motivated team. Uruguay presents more challenges to a researcher than Europe. Infrastructure, equipment, technology and financing can be difficult to access. Public investment in science is only around 0.4% of Uruguay’s gross domestic product. In France, that figure is around 2%.
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