Iván Antonio Izquierdo is a well-known Brazilian / Argentine scientist, pioneer in the study of the neurobiology of memory and learning. Born in 1937 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he completed his medical degree in 1961 and obtained his doctorate in Pharmacology in 1962, always at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). For some years he acted as a teacher at the National University of Córdoba (UNC), Argentina, but, depending on a confluence of factors, both political (the military government) and personal (his marriage, Ivone, which is native to Brazil), He emigrated to Brazil in the beginning of the seventies, and since 1978 he lives in the city of Porto Alegre, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. For more than twenty years, he headed the "Memory Center" of the Department of Biochemistry, ICBS, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), where he has had a great influence on a whole generation of young scientists: he has trained 42 doctors to over all these years, most of which today work in Universities in Brazil and also abroad. He recently retired from the public University and settled in the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), where he continues with his work of basic research and training of future scientists.