Jaime Larry Benchimol holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the Institute of Human Sciences and Philosophy at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (1976); a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Graduate School in Engineering (COPPE) at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1982); and a doctorate in history from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (1995). He spent 1983 in Italy taking a graduate-level specialization course in the restoration of historical monuments. He was science editor of História, Ciências, Saúde—Manguinhos from January 1997 to March 2015 and continues to serve on the journal’s editorial board. He is currently a senior researcher at the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation; professor with the Graduate Program in the History of Science and Health at the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz; and professor with the Graduate Program in Living Conditions and Health Situations in Amazonia at the Leônidas e Maria Deane Institute in Manaus. His research and teaching focus chiefly on the history of the life sciences and the history of tropical medicine and public health. His current work concentrates on the history of the leishmaniases in the New Wold.