Serafim Guimarães

Serafim Guimarães, full name Serafim Correia Pinto Guimarães, (born May 2, 1934) is a Portuguese physician and pharmacologist. With his colleague Walter Osswald (born 1928) he made the Department of Pharmacology, Medical Faculty of the University of Porto, a center of research on catecholamines and the sympathetic nervous system, especially their relation to blood vessels.

Guimarães was born in Espargo, a village close to the city of Santa Maria da Feira in the Portuguese Região Norte. He is the second son of the peasant Américo Ferreira Pinto Guimarães and his wife Maria Emília Correia née Pais. Serafim studied medicine at the University of Porto and simultaneously worked at the Department of Pharmacology. After military service in Angola from November 1963 to December 1965 he returned to the Department of Pharmacology. In 1966 he spent five months with Hans-Joachim Schümann at the University of Duisburg-Essen, in 1971 and 1977 another nine months with Ullrich Trendelenburg at the University of Würzburg. He has commemorated Ullrich Trendelenburg, who became his friend, in his book „Retratos legendados“. In 1968 he obtained his Ph.D. on th basis of his thesis Receptores Adrenérgicos – Ensaio de Interpretação e Análise (Adrenoceptors – An Attempt at Interpretation and Analysis). In 1973 he became Assistant Professor. He was dismissed in April 1974 in the course of the Carnation Revolution but was reinstated when the pro-Communist Coup of 25 November 1975 was defeated. In 1979 he was nominated Full Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology. From 1990 to 2005 he was head of the Department. He retired in 2005. His successor is Patrício Soares-da-Silva (born 1957). In 1964 Serafim married Maria de Fátima née Martins de Sousa, with whom he has two sons and a daughter.

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