Francisco Mauro Salzano
Brazil
| Category | Area
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| E-mail
| | Fellow | Structural, Cell and
Molecular Biology
| Brazil | francisco.salzano@ufrgs.br |
| Biography | | Dr. Salzano is
Emeritus Professor of the Genetics Department at the Federal University of Rio
Grande do Sul. He obtained his PhD at the University of São Paulo and pursued
postdoctoral work at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His career at the
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul began at the Instructor level, then
included a Full Professorship and ultimately reached the position of Director
of the Natural Sciences Institute. His honours include: Two National Prizes;
National Order of Scientific Merit; Great Cross Class, Brazil; Ibero-American
Society of Human Genetics and Human Biology Association Prizes (both from the
USA); and Honorary Citizenship, Porto Alegre. He is a member of a number of
Brazilian, Chilean, Latin American and USA Academies of Sciences and served in
the governing boards of several Brazilian, Latin American, and international
scientific societies. |
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