EDUARDO CESAR / MARCIA MINILLO / GUTEMBERG BRITO-IOCAward-winners Luiz Hildebrando, Niède Guidon and José Rodrigues CouraEDUARDO CESAR / MARCIA MINILLO / GUTEMBERG BRITO-IOC
The Conrado Wessel Foundation (FCW) announced the winners of the 12th edition of the FCW Price for Science, Culture and Medicine. Parasitologist Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da Silva, a researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in the state of Rondônia, was selected to receive the prize in the science category. A 1953 recipient of a medical degree from the University of São Paulo (USP), Hildebrando, 85, is one of the most respected scholars in the field of tropical diseases. He is the author of over 150 studies on malaria and infectious diseases and was professor of parasitology at the USP Medical School and director of cell differentiation and experimental parasitology units at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Winner of the prize in the category of medicine was José Rodrigues Coura from the Parasitic Diseases Laboratory of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute. The 86 year-old physician received his undergraduate degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro where he also earned a PhD and became an associate professor, and did post-doctoral research at the National Institutes of Health in 1986. Coura distinguished himself in medicine through his focus on infectious and parasitic diseases such as schistosomiasis and Chagas disease. The archeologist Niède Guidon took the prize in the culture category. With a specialty in prehistoric archeology from the Sorbonne University, in Paris, Guidon is the founder and director of the American Human Museum Foundation, established in 1986 in the state of Piauí. Since 1991, the entity has managed the Serra da Capivara National Park, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The winner from each of the three categories of prizes receives R$300,000. The award ceremony will take place June 9, 2014 at the Sala São Paulo, in downtown São Paulo. Winners were selected in November 2013 through judging by members of the prize’s 10 partner institutions, one of which is FAPESP.
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