Background
ROCHA LIMA, Henrique da was born on November 24, 1879 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
ROCHA LIMA, Henrique da was born on November 24, 1879 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Educated Colégio Americano, 1889-1891, Ginásio do Rio de Janeiro, 1892-1895, medical. school, University do Brasil, 18961900.
Assistant, pathological institute, University of Jena. Germany, 1909; assistant, institute of tropical medicine, Hamburg, Germany, 1910-1914, sect, chief, 1914-1928. Assistant, director, Institute Biológico, Sâo Paulo, 1928-1933, superintendent director of its department, of sanitary protection of agriculture, since 1933.
Member: American Society of Tropical Medicine. German Society of Pathology, German Society of Tropical Medicine, Academy, de Medicina (Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires), Society of Protozoology (Russia), Society de Biología (Sâo Paulo), Society de Medicina (Sâo Paulo). Honors: medal of merit, Pope Pius XI.