Brazilian Society of Physiology
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Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
, official abbreviation SBFis) is a learned society
Learned society
A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline/profession, as well a group of disciplines. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honor conferred by election, as is the case with the oldest learned societies,...
and association of students and professionals in physiology
Physiology
Physiology is the science of the function of living systems. This includes how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and bio-molecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system. The highest honor awarded in physiology is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
. It is a member of the Brazilian Federation of Experimental Biology Societies (FeSBE) and of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC). Internationally, it is the country's representative at the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) http://www.iups.org/Sections/memsoc.html and at the Latin American Association of Physiological Sciences.
The Society was founded on August 10, 1957, in the city of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
. Among the founding members was a host of important Brazilian scientists of the century, such as Wilson Teixeira Beraldo
Wilson Teixeira Beraldo
Wilson Teixeira Beraldo was a Brazilian physician and physiologist, a co-discoverer of bradykinin....
, Oto G. Bier, Franklin Moura Campos, Alberto de Carvalho, Carlos Chagas
Carlos Chagas
Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, or Carlos Chagas , was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist and bacteriologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. He discovered Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis in 1909, while working at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro...
, Nelson Chaves, Mário Vianna Dias, Carlos Ribeiro Diniz, Hiss Martins Ferreira, Paulo Enéas Galvão, José Moura Gonçalves
José Moura Gonçalves
José Moura Gonçalves , Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist, biochemist and educator, one of the pioneers of biochemistry in the country....
, Aristides Pacheco Leão, Thales Martins, Erasmo G. Mendes, José Ribeiro do Valle, Fernando Ubatuba, Amadeu Cury, Haiti Moussatché, Eline S. Prado, José Leal Prado, Paulo Sawaya, Mauricio Rocha e Silva
Maurício Rocha e Silva
Maurício Oscar da Rocha e Silva was a Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist and pharmacologist...
, Lauro Sollero and Baeta Viana. Prof. Thales Martins was elected the first president. Among its most noted past presidents were Wilson Beraldo, Hiss Martins Ferreira, Eduardo Moacyr Krieger, César Timo-Iaria and Gerhard Malnic.
The Society's official journal is the Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
The Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research is a leading international scientific periodical in the fields of biology and medicine, edited and published monthly by the Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica , a federation of Brazilian scientific societies comprising:*Sociedade...
http://www.scielo.br/bjmbr, which is published on-line by SciElo
SciElo
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.