Portuguese-Brazilian physician and physiologist born in Porto, Portugal, who has distinguished himself in Brazil and abroad for his studies in the field of nutrition, and that throughout his career as a researcher and academic, he also proved to be a defender of science and scientists Brazilians. He arrived in Brazil as a child and during the 1920s, he lived in basements and tenements in São Paulo. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at USP (1940) and, the following year, entered the Department of Physiology at the University from São Paulo, first as an assistant and later as a professor (1954), adjunct professor (1960) and full professor (1964).
During this period he was awarded a scholarship by the Rockefeller Foundation, in the United States, on three occasions: in the Department of Nutrition at Yale University (1946-1947), at the Department of Physiology at the University of Chicago (1959) and at the Department of Nutrition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT -1960). Scientific director of the CTA at FAPESP (1968-1969), of which he was one of the creators, with the publication of the infamous Institutional Act nº 5, he was compulsorily removed from USP (1969). He was then hired by the Ford Foundation as a technical consultant in science, technology and nutrition, and worked at the Foundation's offices in Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile and Lima (1969-1980). He has also worked for the World Bank as a consultant on nutrition programs in Brazil (1974-1979), Indonesia (1979) and Mexico (1982), and on the UN Subcommittee on Nutrition (1979-1983).
He was also a consultant at the United Nations University in Mozambique and Angola (1981). Already then, benefited from the political amnesty, he had reintegrated to USP (1980), he became director of the Department of Physiology of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences and CEO of FAPESP (1984-1993). He retired (1993), became (1994) Professor Emeritus at USP and Honorary Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Universities from São Paulo (IEA-USP), where he coordinated the area of Scientific and Technological Policy (1994-2001), in addition to participating in various activities in high-level commissions, such as those that prepared the document The Presence of the Public University (1998) and the USP Code of Ethics (2000-2001).
Honorable President of SBPC, he was the author of more than 40 works of an experimental nature in the field of nutrition, published in national and international journals, and 53 experimental works presented at scientific meetings in the country and in the outside. Always concerned with the development of a Brazilian scientific, technological and industrial policy and the university-industry relationship, focused on health, food security and nutrition, only decreased its activities when its health began to deteriorate (2001) and died the following year, in São Paulo (SP), at 85 years old.
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