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Information trouvée : Ivan Antonio Izquierdo (16 September 1937 – 9 February 2021) was an Argentine Brazilian
scientist and a pioneer in the study of the neurobiology of learning and memory. Born
in 1937 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Izquierdo graduated in Medicine (1961) and completed
his Ph.D. in Pharmacology (1962), both in the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). For
nearly a decade, Izquierdo taught at National University of Cordoba (UNC), in Argentina,
but, due to a number of reasons, both political (the Argentinian dictatorship) and
personal (his wife, Ivone, is Brazilian), he moved to Brazil in the beginning of the
1970s, and lived in Porto Alegre since 1978. For more than 20 years, he worked in
the "Center of Memory" of the Biochemistry Department of the Health Basic Sciences
Institute (ICBS) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), where he
had an enormous influence on young scientists. Later, he moved to the Pontifical Catholic
University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) where he continued with his research.