title: Dedication to Manoel Pimentel Neto --1928-2010.
abstract: Dr Manoel Pimentel Neto's career as a researcher and adviser is recalled in this summary of his professional life. He adored his work, to which he dedicated himself fully as an exemplary public employee. In 1958, he graduated in veterinary medicine from the Rural University of Brazil (Universidade Rural do Brasil; URB), which today is the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro; UFRRJ). At that time, postgraduate training in different aspects of veterinary medicine did not exist. Dr Pimentel started his activities as a veterinary surgeon at the then Ministry of Agriculture, working on cattle health, and later on transferred to the National Department of Agricultural and Livestock Research (DNPA), which was the institution that evolved into the present-day EMBRAPA.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Parasitologia Animal, Instituto de Veterinária,Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, RJ, Brazil. faccinijlh@globo.com
authors.forename: João Luiz Horacio
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Faccini
authors.forename: David Eric
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Evans
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D010274:Parasitology / Q000266:history