{"id":44123,"date":"2012-05-06T16:11:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T19:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=44123"},"modified":"2012-12-06T16:13:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T18:13:53","slug":"fascinated-with-regeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/fascinated-with-regeneration\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascinated with regeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"UNIVERSIDADE DE WASHINGTON<\/span>

Nelson FaustoUNIVERSIDADE DE WASHINGTON<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Nelson Fausto, a pathologist at the Medical School of the University of Washington, often flew from Seattle to Washington D.C., where he attended editorial meetings of the American Journal of Pathology<\/em>. Quite often, he used the services of the same taxi driver. After several trips, the driver told him that he wanted to be a scientist. Fausto was acquainted with Anthony Fauci, director of the United States\u2019 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and persuaded him to help the driver to start a career at this institution. After a while, the driver was hired by the institute, Ann De Lancey, the scientist\u2019s widow, told Pesquisa FAPESP. <\/em>\u201cNelson treated Nobel laureates and common people with the same interest and consideration,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Stories such as this were recalled on April 2, when the researcher passed away at the age of 75, as a result of a multiple myeloma, a type of bone-marrow cancer. Nelson Fausto was born in S\u00e3o Paulo. One of his brothers, Boris, was a historian and another, Ruy, was a philosopher, both from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP). Nelson graduated in 1960 from the USP Medical School (FMUSP) and two years later trained at the department of pathology at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin in the United States. He had intended to join the then newly-founded University of Brasilia after finishing his specialization course. However, the 1964 military coup caused him to stay in Wisconsin and to embark upon a successful career far away from here. \u201cHad there been no coup, he would probably have returned to Brazil to teach and do research,\u201d says Boris. The youngest of the brothers, he came to S\u00e3o Paulo every year to visit his family and to sit on boards and commissions.<\/p>\n

After Wisconsin, Fausto moved to Brown University, in Providence, where he held leadership and management positions, until we was appointed head of the pathology department at the Medical School of the University of Washington, in Seattle. His field of expertise was cancer of the liver; this organ fascinated him for its regeneration capabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cNelson was one of the most brilliant students that ever worked in my Medical School lab in the late 1950s,\u201d tells us Michel Rabinovitch, a former professor at FMUSP and currently a collaborating professor at the Federal University of S\u00e3o Paulo. \u201cAlong with Vinay Kumar and Abul Abbas, he revised the classic text of Robbins and Cotran, Pathological basis of diseases <\/em>(2005), the bedside book of medical students worldwide, Brazil included.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nelson Fausto was the editor in chief of the American Journal of Pathology <\/em>for 10 years. He published more than 160 original pieces of work, in addition to 30 review articles, with some 16 thousand citations. \u201cBesides considerable scientific production, he had an enormous capacity to make friends,\u201d says the biochemist Walter Colli, from USP\u2019s Institute of Chemistry. For Rabinovitch, Fausto\u2019s lack of vanity and conceit were some of his major characteristics. Married to the American psychiatrist Ann De Lancey, his second wife, Fausto had no children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A liver cancer expert, Nelson Fausto was good at making friends","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[247],"coauthors":[93],"class_list":["post-44123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44123"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=44123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}