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Albuquerque, Edson Xavier was born on January 22, 1938 in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
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Edson Xavier Albuquerque
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Edson Xavier Albuquerque, American Pharmacology educator. C.A.P.E.S. fellow, 1959-1962, Rockefeller Foundation fellow, 1962-1963, 63-64; Neuropharmacology grantee National Institute Neurological Diseases and Blindness, 1964-1965; Neuropharmacology fellow Swedish Medical Research Council, International Brain Research Organization/Unesco, 1965-1967; Order of Grand Cross, President of Brazil, 1995, Order of Rio Branco, 1996.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Salesiano College, Recife, Brazil, 1953; Doctor of Medicine, U. Recife, 1959; Doctor of Philosophy, Federal U. Permambuco, U. Sao Paulo, University of Illinois, 1962.
Career
Lecturer anatomy and physiology, U. Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, 1954-1959; instructor pharmacology, University of Illinois, 1964-1965; assistant professor pharmacology, U. Lund (Sweden), 1965-1967; research assistant professor department pharmacology Schools Medicine and Dentistry, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1968-1969; associate professor pharmacology, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1969-1972; professor pharmacology, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1972-1973; professor, acting chairman, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1973-1974; professor, department chairman pharmacology and experimental therapeutics, U. Maryland., Baltimore, since 1974. Titular professor Federal U. Rio de Janeiro. Director molecular pharmacology training program Joint U. Maryland./Federal U. Rio de Janeiro.
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Membership
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physiological Society, American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (Otto Krayer award 1996), American Men and Women of Science, Biophysics Society American, International Society Myochemistry, International Brain Research Organisation (Latin American delegation), Latin American Society Physiological Science, Brazilian Pharmacology Society, Society Toxicology, Society Neurosci., Third World Academy Sciences, Brazilian Academy Science.
