Renato Helios Migliorini (June 26, 1926 in Jaú – January 16, 2008 in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil) was a Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist, biochemist and full professor of physiology at the Medical School of Ribeirão Preto of the University of São Paulo.
He obtained a doctorate with his animal research work on the role of estrogens in diabetes.
In 1953, he was hired as full-time instructor in the recently founded Department of Physiology of the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, where he worked until very shortly before his death at 82 years of age.
As a researcher, Dr. Migliorini had a strong focus on the physiology of the endocrine system and biochemical physiology,[1] and within this framework established a strong and active laboratory, which explored many areas, such as neural regulation of fatty acids and glucose, the effects of fasting and feeding on metabolism of brown adipose tissue and liver functions, the protein metabolism in skeletal muscle, the interactions of dietary protein and glucose in glycolysis in adipose tissue, exposure to cold and drugs, as well as the role and function of gluconeogenesis in strictly carnivorous animals, such as vultures.
Dr. Migliorini had, in his lifetime, many collaborators and graduate students, such as Isis do Carmo Kettelhut, José Antunes Rodrigues, José Ernesto dos Santos, Itamar Vugman, Cecil Linder, George Gross, Ingrid Dick de Paula, Vera Lúcia Teixeira, Cesar Timo-Iaria, André Ricciardi Cruz, Cássio Botura and Miguel Rolando Covian, among many others.