Fondecyt

One of the main challenges in cancer treatment is ensuring that therapies specifically target tumor cells while minimizing damage to healthy tissue. Added to this are other limitations, such as the difficulty of monitoring treatment response in real time and the side effects associated with some conventional therapies.

To address this challenge, Dr. Daniel Zúñiga is leading a Fondecyt Iniciación project to design and develop novel theranostic probes. These specialized agents are engineered to target cancer cells and eliminate them using photodynamic therapy selectively.

Mental health challenges like anxiety, stress, and depression are rising rapidly among children and teens. These struggles directly affect a student’s emotional well-being, academic performance, school relationships, and long-term development—creating an urgent challenge for educational communities and authorities.

In Chile, during the dictatorship, photographs taken in domestic and intimate settings documented ways of life that the regime sought to render invisible. Many of these images, preserved in family albums or personal collections, became over time testimonies to experiences that remained outside official narratives, even after the return to democracy.