Sergio Arias Cazorla

This article is about the Venezuelan human geneticist. For the retired Mexican footballer and goalkeeper, see Sergio Arias.

Sergio Arias Cazorla (born 1933) is a human geneticist who worked as a geneticist in the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (Spanish: Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciónes Científicas).

Sergio Arias Cazorla
Born	Sergio Arias Cazorla Not known
Nationality	Venezuelan
Other names	Arias et al.
Occupation	Human geneticist
Years active	1952–present
Known for	Founding the Human Genetics laboratory in the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research and discovering IVIC syndrome (also known as Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciónes Científicas syndrome)
Notable work	Founding the Human Genetics laboratory in the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research.

Career

He first started studying medicine at the Central University of Venezuela, in Caracas, from 1952 to 1959, then did postgraduate studies in internal medicine from 1959 to 1961. He worked as a zoology 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 at the Johns Hopkins University 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 biology professor at the Universidad Simón Bolívar (English: Simón Bolívar University), and finally from 1975 to 1996 he worked as a human genetics 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.