Background
ROCHA E SILVA, Mauricio was born on September 19, 1919 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Pharmacologist physician physiologist
ROCHA E SILVA, Mauricio was born on September 19, 1919 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Educated Colégio Pedro II, 1923-1927, medical. school, University do Brasil, 1928-1933.
Assistant, in general biology, school of sciences, Sao Paulo, 1935-1936. Assistant, Institute Biológico, 1937-1942, tech, assistant, 1942-1943, head, sect, of biochemistry and pharmacodynamics, since 1943.
Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation, New York, United States of America, 1940-1942. Member: Society de Biología do Brasil. Society for Exptl. Biology and Medicine (New York), Sigma Xi (Northwestern University, United States of America).