The son of Jan Barcinski and Izabella Barcinski, Marcello André Barcinski was born on August 28, 1940, in the city of São Paulo in the State of São Paulo.
He enrolled at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM), graduating in 1965. In 1974, he obtained the title of Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Biophysics) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and two years later and until 1978, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States.
While still a medical student, Barcinski began his research activities at the Carlos Chagas Filho Institute of Biophysics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where, in 1988, he was appointed as a Full Professor of Biophysics. He then took advantage of the institution’s multidisciplinary approach to establish its Immunogenetics Laboratory, which broadened its scope of action into several other realms of immunological research. It quickly turned into the now Immunology Program that produces high-quality research and educates Ph.D. candidates in Immunology.
In 1991, Dr. Barcinski changed departments and joined the University of São Paulo’s (USP) Department of Parasitology, where he led efforts to develop research on the subject of Immunoparasitology. In 1999, he was designated by Brazil’s Ministry of Health to help reorder and expand the Rio de Janeiro-based National Cancer Institute’s (INCA) research activities. There, he devised the organization’s Experimental Medicine Division and also set up the Postgraduate Program in Experimental Oncology.
Dr. Barcinski is experienced in the fields of Biophysics and Immunology, particularly in cellular immunology, and works in the areas of Immunoparasitology and Translational Medicine, focusing on the apoptosis-induced effects of programmed cell death.
He is responsible for creating the concept of “apoptotic mimicry,” which proved, for the first time, that a reduction of an apoptosis-induced immune response in unicellular pathogens (Leishmania spp) plays a significant role in parasitic diseases. The same mechanism also contributes to the development of tumors.
Among the multiple titles and positions Dr. Barcinski has amassed throughout his remarkable career, some include Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (BAS) in 1992; Vice-President of the Brazilian Federation on Experimental Biology Societies (FeSBE); President of the Brazilian Society of Immunology (SBI); and Member of the National Technical Commission on Biotechnology (CTNBio), among other roles.
He was additionally honored with the National Order of Scientific Merit granted by the Brazilian government in 1998, LAFI research award in 1986 and the SBI Lifetime Achievement Award in Immunology conferred by the Brazilian Society of Immunology in 2014.
Furthermore, the esteemed physician and academician held the role of Permanent Member or Ad-Hoc Member in numerous Brazilian and foreign funding and policy-defining agencies, such as the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES) and the World Health Organization (WHO), of which he was a Member for three years, in addition to serving as President of the Managing Committee for Research on Tropical Diseases related to Chagas Disease, also for three years.
Dr. Barcinski is a Visiting Professor at Rio de Janeiro’s Oswaldo Cruz Institute and an Emeritus Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Also, he holds the title of Head of Metrology Applied to Life Science (Dimav) at the National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality (INMETRO).
In his academic activities, he has published over one hundred scientific papers and 10 book chapters.
While attempting to secure full membership at the Academia Nacional de Medicina (National Academy of Medicine – ANM), Dr. Marcello André Barcinski submitted a dissertation by the name of “A New Outlook on Parasitic Diseases.”
Academic number: 599
Chair: 95
Member: Holder
Section: Applied Medical Sciences
Election: 20/08/1998
Inauguration: 27/04/1999
President: Jarbas Anacleto Porto
Academic number: 599
Chair: 95
Member: Holder
Section: Applied Medical Sciences
Election: 20/08/1998
Inauguration: 27/04/1999
President: Jarbas Anacleto Porto
The son of Jan Barcinski and Izabella Barcinski, Marcello André Barcinski was born on August 28, 1940, in the city of São Paulo in the State of São Paulo.
He enrolled at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM), graduating in 1965. In 1974, he obtained the title of Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Biophysics) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and two years later and until 1978, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States.
While still a medical student, Barcinski began his research activities at the Carlos Chagas Filho Institute of Biophysics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where, in 1988, he was appointed as a Full Professor of Biophysics. He then took advantage of the institution’s multidisciplinary approach to establish its Immunogenetics Laboratory, which broadened its scope of action into several other realms of immunological research. It quickly turned into the now Immunology Program that produces high-quality research and educates Ph.D. candidates in Immunology.
In 1991, Dr. Barcinski changed departments and joined the University of São Paulo’s (USP) Department of Parasitology, where he led efforts to develop research on the subject of Immunoparasitology. In 1999, he was designated by Brazil’s Ministry of Health to help reorder and expand the Rio de Janeiro-based National Cancer Institute’s (INCA) research activities. There, he devised the organization’s Experimental Medicine Division and also set up the Postgraduate Program in Experimental Oncology.
Dr. Barcinski is experienced in the fields of Biophysics and Immunology, particularly in cellular immunology, and works in the areas of Immunoparasitology and Translational Medicine, focusing on the apoptosis-induced effects of programmed cell death.
He is responsible for creating the concept of “apoptotic mimicry,” which proved, for the first time, that a reduction of an apoptosis-induced immune response in unicellular pathogens (Leishmania spp) plays a significant role in parasitic diseases. The same mechanism also contributes to the development of tumors.
Among the multiple titles and positions Dr. Barcinski has amassed throughout his remarkable career, some include Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (BAS) in 1992; Vice-President of the Brazilian Federation on Experimental Biology Societies (FeSBE); President of the Brazilian Society of Immunology (SBI); and Member of the National Technical Commission on Biotechnology (CTNBio), among other roles.
He was additionally honored with the National Order of Scientific Merit granted by the Brazilian government in 1998, LAFI research award in 1986 and the SBI Lifetime Achievement Award in Immunology conferred by the Brazilian Society of Immunology in 2014.
Furthermore, the esteemed physician and academician held the role of Permanent Member or Ad-Hoc Member in numerous Brazilian and foreign funding and policy-defining agencies, such as the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES) and the World Health Organization (WHO), of which he was a Member for three years, in addition to serving as President of the Managing Committee for Research on Tropical Diseases related to Chagas Disease, also for three years.
Dr. Barcinski is a Visiting Professor at Rio de Janeiro’s Oswaldo Cruz Institute and an Emeritus Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Also, he holds the title of Head of Metrology Applied to Life Science (Dimav) at the National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality (INMETRO).
In his academic activities, he has published over one hundred scientific papers and 10 book chapters.
While attempting to secure full membership at the Academia Nacional de Medicina (National Academy of Medicine – ANM), Dr. Marcello André Barcinski submitted a dissertation by the name of “A New Outlook on Parasitic Diseases.”