Ivan Antonio Izquierdo | |
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| Born | 16 September 1937 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | 9 February 2021 (aged 83) Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| Citizenship | Argentinian Brazilian |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires |
| Known for | Study of memory in mammals |
| Awards | Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico Order of Rio Branco Doctor honoris causa, University of Buenos Aires |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neurology Neurobiology |
| Institutions | Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul |
Ivan Antonio Izquierdo (16 September 1937[1] – 9 February 2021) was an Argentine Brazilian scientist and a pioneer in the study of the neurobiology of learning and memory.
Born in 1937 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Izquierdo graduated in Medicine (1961) and completed his Ph.D. in Pharmacology (1962), both in the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).[2] For nearly a decade, Izquierdo taught at National University of Cordoba (UNC), in Argentina, but, due to a number of reasons, both political (the Argentinian dictatorship) and personal (his wife, Ivone, is Brazilian), he moved to Brazil in the beginning of the 1970s, and lived in Porto Alegre since 1978. For more than 20 years, he worked in the "Center of Memory" of the Biochemistry Department of the Health Basic Sciences Institute (ICBS) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), where he had an enormous influence on young scientists: he trained 42 Ph.D. students, most of whom hold academic research positions in universities in Brazil and elsewhere. Later, he moved to the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) where he continued with his research.
Izquierdo died from pneumonia on 9 February 2021, in Porto Alegre. He was 83.[3][4]
- ^ Squire, Larry R. (9 September 2011). The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography: Volume 7. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-539613-3. Retrieved 9 February 2021 – via Google Books.
- ^ Trivedi, B. P. (2010). "Profile of Ivan Izquierdo". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (34): 14947–14949. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10714947T. doi:10.1073/pnas.1010117107. PMC 2930525. PMID 20696922.
- ^ "Morre Iván Izquierdo, neurocientista especialista em memória - PUCRS - Portal".
- ^ "Em razão de pneumonia, morre Iván Izquierdo, especialista em memória e reconhecido pesquisador latino-americano". GZH. 9 February 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2021.