Mauricio Rocha e Silva
Fellow: Awarded 1940
Field of Study: Molecular and Cellular Biology
Fellow: Awarded 1941
Field of Study: Molecular and Cellular Biology
Competition: Latin America & Caribbean
Born: 09-19-1910
Died: 12-19-1983
As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1939–40:
Latin American Exchange Fellows, 1940
Appointed from Brazil:
ROCHA E SILVA, MAURICIO: Appointed for research into the pharmacological properties of trypsin; tenure, twelve months from November 1, 1940.
Born September 19, 1910, at Rio de Janeiro. Education: University of Rio de Janeiro, M.D., 1933.
Assistant Investigator in General Biology, 1935–36, University of São Paulo; Member of the Staff, 1937—, Biological Institute of the State of São Paulo.
Publications: Articles in Folia Clinica et Biologica, Competes Rendus de la Société de Biologie (Paris), Revista de Biologia e Higiene, Revista Brasileira de Chimica, Archivos do Instituto Biologico, Virchow’s Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie, Brasil Médico, Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Microbiology, Nature, Naunyn-Schmiedeberg’s Archiv für Experimentelle Pathologie und Pharmakologie, Journal of Immunology, Bollettino dell’Instituto Sieroterapico Milanese.
Photograph credit: Pictured with his wife, Maria Ignez da Rocha e Silva