Dr. Juan Carlos Sáez is a Professor of Physiology at the Catholic University of Chile and a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Valparaíso, where he also serves as Deputy Director of the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Center. He earned his degree in Biochemistry from the University of Concepcion, Chile, and his Ph.D. in Sciences from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He has been recognized as a member of both the Latin American Academy of Science and the National Academy of Science of the USA. He is also a longstanding member of several international scientific societies. Beyond his own research, he is distinguished for having established a prominent Chilean school of young investigators who now independently study connexin and pannexin channels. His research continues to focus on cell communication mechanisms in both normal and pathological conditions.