Name:
Professor Gilberto De Nucci FBPhS
Organisation:
State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
Year elected:
2017
Primary professional setting:
Gilberto De Nucci studied medicine at the Medical School of Ribeirão Preto of the University of São Paulo, in Ribeirão Preto (graduating in 1981), where he also did his initial scientific studies in the Department of Pharmacology under the supervision of Professor Sergio Henrique Ferreira. Soon after graduation he moved to London, England. He worked from 1982 to 1986 in the Wellcome Research Laboratories and obtained a PhD in Pharmacology in the Royal College of Surgeons of England under the supervision of Professores Y S Bakhle and Salvador Moncada. From 1986 to 1988 he worked as post-doc at the William Harvey Research Institute in Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College under the supervision of Sir John R. Vane. He moved back to Brazil in 1989 and has been working there as a Professor of Pharmacology in the University of Sao Paulo and University of Campinas.