Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Independencia 1027, Casilla 70058, Santiago, Chile.

Ramón is licentiate in Chemistry and Pharmacy (1968) and Magister in Medical Sciences (1989) at the University of Chile, where he has been working during the last 47 years at the Faculty of Medicine. The field of research work in his career is on the role of oxidative stress in human disease, editing four books, numerous book chapters, and about 150 articles.