Max E. Valentinuzzi

by | Feb 21, 2024

Max E. Valentinuzzi
FF, FE, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Bachelor from Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, graduated as Telecommunications Engineer at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. PhD in Physiology and Biophysics from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, where he also became Assistant Professor. Professor of Bioengineering and Head of Laboratory at Universidad Nacional de Tucumán and Career Investigator of Consejo Nacional Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET), Argentina. In 1973, he shared the Nightingale Prize of Bioengineering by IFMBE and in 1980 the Houssay Prize of Biology (Sociedad Argentina Biología). EMBS Career Achievement Award, IEEE Life Fellow Member and recipient of other recognitions. Emeritus Member of the American Physiological Society and member of several societies and academies.

In approximately 50 years, this investigator has published 99 papers in indexed journals, 34 in non-indexed journals and presented 96 communications to congresses, all classified as R&D. Besides, he produced 22 articles, 4 books and 7 chapters that can be considered as teaching and/or review products; he was also guest editor of 6 special issues of recognized journals. There were 27 general articles and 16 communications and/or conferences, the latter by invitation. He has 5 translations and 37 miscelaneous papers. He supervised 27 final projects for undergraduate students, was consultant to a master degree thesis in the USA, and directed or codirected 10 doctoral dissertations. Dr. Valentinuzzi has contributed to the development of BME in Latin America and Argentina. The IEEE/EMBS gave him the 1996 Career Achievement Award (Amsterdam) and the IEEE promoted him to the maximum level of Fellow in 1999. He was the main speaker of the EMBS Cancún Conference in 2003 and recipient of the Bernardo Houssay