José Moura Gonçalves (January 5, 1914[1] – October 18, 1996[2]) was a Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist, biochemist and educator who was one of the pioneers of biochemistry in Brazil.
While a student, he began to work as an assistant in the laboratory of physiological chemistry of Professor José Baeta Vianna (May 30, 1894 – October 1, 1967).
Returning to Brazil in the first years of the 1950s, he was invited by Dr. Zeferino Vaz to join the new and ambitious project of a research medical school at the hinterland city of Ribeirão Preto, the Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto of the Universidade de São Paulo, where he became the chairman of the department of biochemistry, and, after Vaz's departure, the new dean of the medical school, in 1964.
Gonçalves, JM; Deutsch, HF (Feb 1956), "Ultracentrifugal and zone electrophoresis studies of some crotalidae venoms.
", Arch Biochem Biophys, 60 (2): 402–11, doi:10.1016/0003-9861(56)90444-1, PMID 13292919, 13292919 Gonçalves, JM; Deniz, CR (1960-07-15), "Separation of biologically active components from scorpion venoms by zone electrophoresis.