Long awaited head installed at Chile’s new science ministry
Chilean researchers are now hopeful, just weeks after warning their president about the dangers of his ‘surprise’ cuts to science funding
Biologist Andrés Couve, a neurosciences professor at the University of Chile and past president of the Chilean Society for Cell Biology, became the country’s first Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation on 17 December. Carolina Torrealba, a cell biologist and former executive director of the government’s Millennium Science Initiative, will serve as the new science ministry’s undersecretary.