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Secretaria da Saúde (São Paulo - Estado). Instituto Butantan (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
He graduated in medicine from the University of São Paulo (1964) and got his PhD in pharmacology from the same university (1969). He became a full professor of pharmacology in 1986 in the Biomedical Sciences Institute of the University of São Paulo, and director of the Center for Applied Toxinology (CAT/CEPID) at the Butantan Institute in 2000. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, EUA (1970-1972), and visiting researcher at the MRC, Cambridge, UK with a grant from the Wellcome Foundation (1982-1984); at the CNRS in Gif-sur-Yvette, France, with grants from INSERM and CAPES-COFECUB (1985-1989);and at the University of Kobe Gakuin, Japan, with a grant from JICA (1990) . He has over 160 indexed publications with over 2500 citations. He filed 5 patents, and as Director of CAT/CEPID he gave support for the filing of 13 national and international patents and the publication of over 300 papers in indexed journals, also working for the diffusion of toxinology in workshops, courses, exhibitions, newspaper articles and interviews. He has advised 19 PhD and 21 master theses. His main scientific contribution was the discovery and characterization of the oligopeptidase class of enzymes (1222 articles in PubMed, July 2014), having published himself over 50 papers on the subject (1970-2010). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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