Francisco Antonio De Venanzi (12 March 1917 – 12 September 1987) was a Venezuelan doctor, scientist and academic.
[1] His biography was published as volume 51 of the Biblioteca Biográfica Venezolana.
He became a professor in the Faculty of Medicine of the Central University of Venezuela, first in physiology, then in pathology and later in pathophysiology.
Like other professors, he resigned in 1951 in protest at decree 321 of the military junta, which ended the autonomy of the university.
[1] In 1950 De Venanzi founded the Venezuelan Association for the Advancement of Science, AsoVAC,[3] which publishes the journal Acta Científica Venezolana.