Gilberto Guimaráes VILLELA

Background

VILLELA, Gilberto Guimaráes was born on July 12, 1904 in Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Career

Assistant, Institute Oswaldo Cruz, 1927-1941, professor, of biochemistry since 1935, head, division of chemistry and pharmacology since 1942. Laboratory chief, medical. school, University do Brasil, 1933-1937, lecturer in chemistry physiology, 1936. Consulting expert for League of Nations at International Center of Leprology, Rio de Janeiro, 1935-1937.

Permanent member, Revisâo da Farmacopéia Brasileira, since 1943. Lecturer in pharmacology, medical. school, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America, 1945. Doctor of Medicine, University do Brasil, 1925.

Degree in biochemistry^ and microbiology, Institute Oswaldo Cruz, 1927.

Membership

Member: Society Brasileira de Biología (president, 1945), Society Brasileira de Química, Asociación Bioquímica de Argentina, Society for Exptl. Biology and Medicine, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society Brasileira de Dermatología. Member Academy Nacional de Medicina.

Connections

Father:

Gastáo de Azevedo Villela

Mother:

Iracema Guimaráes

Spouse:

Lygia Marinho