This article aims to analyze the career trajectory of a group of biomedical scientists of Manguinhos and it focuses on the process of construction of their professional careers between the 20s and the 50s. It is centered on case studies, with a view to evaluating the sociability and consolidation means employed by the group, the recruiting strategies, as well as the values which shaped their identity in the daily life inside the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, deemed to be one of the leading loci of biomedical sciences in Brazil.
history; history of science; academia; research institutes