Nuno Álvares Pereira, Brazilian pharmacologist (Rio de Janeiro 12 August 1920 – Rio de Janeiro 10 January 2012)

Authored over 100 scientific works mainly on natural products pharmacology

With H. Moussatché gave pioneering contributions to knowledge of corticotrophic hormones

Proposed a method for dosage of heparin

Notas sobre a padronização e ensaio da heparina. Rev. Bras. Farm. 11:423, 1953

Discovered alkaloid polyneuridine from Aspidosperma polyneuron

With L. Antonaccio, B. Gilbert, C. Dejerassi et al. Polyneuridine, a new alkaloid from Aspidosperma polyneuron and some observations on mass spectra of indole alkaloids. J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 84 (2161): 70, 1962

With R.J. Siqueira Jaccoud first showed cardiotonic activity of Oxypetalum balansae (1979)

Discovered alkaloid nitidine from Fagara tingoassuiba, that is able to inhibit reverse transcriptase (1990s)

With W.B. Mors & C.T. Rizzini authored Medicinal Plants of Brazil with international circulation (2000)

Improvisação de um dispositivo para perfusão de pequenos órgãos para ensaios biológicos (1950)

MEMBERSHIP

Active Member, New York Academy of Sciences (1963)

Member, American Society of Pharmacognosy (1970)