Sergio Arias Cazorla (born 1952) is a human geneticist who worked as a

geneticist A geneticist is a biologist or physician who studies genetics, the science of genes, heredity, and variation of organisms. A geneticist can be employed as a scientist or a lecturer. Geneticists may perform general research on genetic processes ...

in the

Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research The Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), or ''Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas'', is a scientific research institute and graduate training center in Venezuela founded by government decree on February 9, 1959. It h ...

(Spanish: Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciónes Científicas). He first started studying medicine at the ''Universidad Central de Venezuela'', in

Caracas, Venezuela Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

from 1952 to 1959, then did postgraduate studies in internal medicine from 1959 to 1961. He worked as a

zoology Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and ...

professor from 1952 to 1953 at the ''Escuela de Capacitación Forestal de El Junquito'' (English: ''Forest Capacitation School El Junquito''), then from 1964 to 1966 he became a fellow in

medical genetics Medical genetics is the branch tics in that human genetics is a field of scientific research that may or may not apply to medicine, while medical genetics refers to the application of genetics to medical care. For example, research on the caus ...

at the

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in Baltimore, United States, then in June 1969 he founded the ''Human Genetics laboratory,'' at the ''Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research,'' which he created to do research on hereditary/genetic disorders that are present in Venezuela, then from 1970 to 1975 he worked as a

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professor at the ''Universidad Simón Bolívar'' (English: Simón Bolívar University), and finally from 1975 to 1996 he worked as a

human genetics Human genetics is the study of inheritance as it occurs in human beings. Human genetics encompasses a variety of overlapping fields including: classical genetics, cytogenetics, molecular genetics, biochemical genetics, genomics, population gene ...

professor at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, where he documented the first case of and consequently discovered Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciónes Científicas syndrome, or IVIC syndrome for short.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cazorla, Sergio Arias Living people Venezuelan scientists People from Caracas Johns Hopkins University fellows Central University of Venezuela alumni Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) alumni 1952 births