Lewis Joel Greene (born August 10, 1934) is an

American Brazilian An American Brazilian ( pt, italic=yes, américo-brasileiro, norte-americano-brasileiro, estadunidense-brasileiro) is a Brazilian person who is fully, partially or predominantly of European-American descent or a U.S.-born immigrant in Brazil. ...

biochemist Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. They study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. Biochemists study DNA, proteins and Cell (biology), cell parts. The word "biochemist" is a portmanteau of ...

, scientist, university professor and

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of the '' Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research''. Greene received a BA in liberal arts from

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in 1955 and a

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in biochemistry and

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in 1962. After his doctorate, he went to work for 12 years as a tenured researcher in the department of biology at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Upon an invitation to become a visiting scientist as a

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for a year at the department of pharmacology of the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto of the University of São Paulo (USP) in 1968, Greene and his family decided to return and stay in the country in 1974 and was hired as a professor at the same school, where he is a full professor of cell and molecular biology and head of the Center for Protein Chemistry of Hemocentro de Ribeirão Preto. Greene has trained more than 40 masters and

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students and postdoctoral researchers, and has written more than 100 papers in

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s. Among several honors, he was inducted into the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit in 2004. He was also a founder and president of the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors.

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Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit (in Portuguese) {{DEFAULTSORT:Greene, Lewis Joel 1934 births Living people American biochemists Brazilian biologists Brazilian people of American descent Commanders of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil) Amherst College alumni American emigrants to Brazil Brookhaven National Laboratory staff