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was first identified; not detected in time, it can cause mental retardation, cataracts and cirrhosis. Numerous other colleagues of his at the institute became well known in their fields, as well. These have included Enrico Cabib, Carlos Cardini, Ranwell Caputto, Alejandro Paladini, and Raúl Trucco,
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in recognition of its longtime director (who died in 1987), in 2001. That year, the center initiated its program of "repatriation of researchers," in a bid to both incorporate new scientific staff, as well as to help reverse the long-standing
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section of Buenos Aires, the institute was first directed by Dr. Leloir and, following Campomar's death in 1956, it became a recipient of an endowment from both the
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among others. The continued support of the Campomar Foundation allowed the institute to relocate to its current facilities in 1983.
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The center maintains numerous cooperation agreements with not only prominent local research centers such as the
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in 1958, when it was relocated to a utilitarian building belonging to the city's health ministry in the
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he earned that year to the establishment of the institute. Initially located in a
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School of Exact Sciences; but also respected international centers, such as
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The research center was inaugurated in 1947 by way of an initiative of
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earned him the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology. This became known as
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Mario Roberto Álvarez
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Buenos Aires
biochemistry
cellular biology
molecular biology
University of Buenos Aires
Bernardo Houssay
Luis Leloir
Jaime Campomar
Nobel Prize in Physiology
belle époque
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Rockefeller Institute
National Institutes of Health
United States
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