Carlos Corredor

Carlos Francisco Corredor Pereira who served as vice-rector and member of the General Chamber of the Simon Bolivar University, in Cúcuta, passed away this Monday, April 11, at the age of 86. This was confirmed by the institution through a statement. (Read: 36,000 vacancies will be opened for teachers in Education Secretariats in Colombia).

Corredor Pereira who was born in Bogotá and completed his professional studies in Chemistry at Tennessee Wesleyan College, where he obtained a B.S., in 1958.

He also received a Master’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of Missouri, Columbia, which he completed in 1961, and a PhD. from Duke University, receiving a PhD. degree in 1968. In his undergraduate years at the University of Missouri, teaching assistant of the Department of Biochemistry.

Once he returned to Colombia, Corredor Pereira joined the Department of Biochemistry at the Valley University, where he served as professor from 1962 to 1992. In this institution he was head of the Biochemistry Section from 1970 to 1973; director of the Medical Sciences graduate program, from 1975 to 1982; Director of Teacher Welfare, in 1982; head of the Department of Physiological Sciences, from 1984 to 1986; Dean of Research, from 1986 to 1988; and Vice Chancellor for Research, from 1988 to 1992.

A year later, in 1993, he went to work at the Javeriana university, in Bogota. There he held the position of academic dean of the Faculty of Sciences for nine years. He then was director of Postgraduate Studies at this faculty, between 2003 and 2009. In 2010 he joined the University of Saint Bonaventure in Cartagena as director of the Master’s in Clinical Biochemistry. (You can read: What does the reduction of the initial education budget imply)

To Simon Bolivar University It arrived first at the headquarters in Barranquilla. He was in 2012 holding the position of dean and founder of the Faculty of Basic and Biomedical Sciences. He later assumed the position of director of the Master’s in Genetics.

Corredor Pereira was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Amazon Institute for Scientific Research (SINCHI) on behalf of the Javeriana university. (Also read: During the pandemic, the number of children in Colombia who lost the year doubled)