Education
In 1965 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1972, both at the School of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires.
In 1965 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1972, both at the School of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires.
Jaim Etcheverry obtained his Doctor of Medicine Committed since his graduation to teaching and full time research in the field of Neurobiology, he was Principal Investigator of the Argentinean National Council of Research (National Scientific and Technical Research Council ) until 2012 as well as full professor and director of the Department of Cell Biology and Histology of the School of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires until 2008. During 1986-1990 he was Dean of that School of Medicine. He carried out postgraduate work in Basel, Switzerland and later on received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to work at the Salk Institute, Louisiana Jolla, California during 1978.
He regularly writes on culture and education in major Argentinean newspapers and frequently speaks on these subjects invited by various social organizations.
In 2002 he was elected President of the University of Buenos Aires, the major university of the country, for a period of four years. Active in the board and council of foundations devoted to research and education, among them the Pew Latin American Program in its origin, the Fulbright Commission Argentina and the former Antorchas Foundation, he received several distinctions.
Between 2005 and 2011 he chaired the Selection Committee of the Latin American and Caribbean Fellowships awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New New York He was named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Republic and, between 2006 and 2012, he chaired the Fundación Carolina of Argentina, involved in the educational and scientific cooperation between Spain and Latin America.