The Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine (, IByME) is a research and development centre affiliated to the University of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
History
The institute was privately founded on March 14, 1944, by Dr. Bernardo A. Houssay, Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (1947) for his work in diabetes and the control of the carbohydrate metabolism. Drs. Eduardo Braun-Menéndez, Oscar Orías, Juan T. Lewis and Virgilio G. Foglia were co-founders. The founding of the institute was motivated by the dismissal of Dr. Houssay, together with 150 other professors from the University of Buenos Aires, by the military government.