Graduating from Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo in 1979, Professor Dr. Beny Schmidt, an expert in muscle biopsies, is considered one of the leading researchers in the field of Neuromuscular Pathology. He introduced this medical practice to Brazil in 1984. In the same year, he founded the Laboratory of Neuromuscular Pathology at the Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP, which currently houses the largest collection of muscle biopsies in the world. With this accomplishment, Dr. Beny Schmidt can be regarded as the foremost muscle pathologist in the history of neuromuscular diseases, with a unique experience in muscle biopsy, having conducted 57,000 biopsies with histochemical studies.

Dr. Schmidt has the privilege of being an expert in two significant areas of medicine, both prestigious fields in a single lifetime, holding two titles, one in Pathological Anatomy and another in Neurology. Between 1986 and 1989, he studied and worked in France at the Hospital De La Timone in Marseille, Hospital De La Salpetière in Paris, obtained his Master’s and Doctorate degrees in France in Neuropathological Pathology at the University of Aix-Marseille III and completed his postdoctoral research at Columbia University.

Professor Schmidt has extensively disseminated the field of Muscle Pathology throughout Brazil, reaching every Brazilian neurologist. His multicenter studies have garnered the highest number of citations in international literature, making him the Brazilian researcher at UNIFESP with the most citations. This accomplished researcher played a pivotal role in identifying the protein crucial for the proper functioning of skeletal muscle—the dystrophin—within the muscle cell.

Currently, Dr. Beny Schmidt is a neurologist and muscle pathologist, serving as the head of the Neuromuscular Pathology Laboratory and an associate professor at the Department of Pathological Anatomy at UNIFESP. He is an author and lifelong member of the Academy of Letters of Brazil and has published 150 works in international literature.