Background
PEREIRA, Helio was born on September 23, 1918 in Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Son of R. and M. G. Pereira.
PEREIRA, Helio was born on September 23, 1918 in Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Son of R. and M. G. Pereira.
British American School, Rio de Janeiro and Faculdade Fluminense de Medicina, Niteroi and Institute Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro.
Assistant lecturer in microbiology, Faculdade Fluminense de Medicina 1942-1945. British Council Scholarship, University of Manchester and National Institute for Medical Research, London, 1945-1947. Worked on rickettsial diseases and on quantitative aspects of serological reactions, Institute Oswaldo Cruz 1947-1952.
With Medical Research Council, Common Cold Unit, Salisbury (United Kingdom) 1952-1957.
With National Institute for Medical Research 1957-1973, Director World Influenza Centre 1961-1969, Head, Division of Virology 1964-1973. Head, Division Epidemiology, Animal Virus Research Institute 1973-1979.
Consultant, Department, of Virology, Fundagao Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro since 1979. Carlos Findlay.
Married Margurette Scott in 1946 (died in 1987).