Dr. Eduardo Sabas Alomá studied Medicine in the University of Havana and carried out postgraduate studies at Harvard University, the United States of America and at the University of San Marcos in Peru. He participated in revolutionary and political activities against the government ruled by the dictator Gerardo Machado that led him to the exile in the United States. He returned to Cuba in 1937. After Batista´s coup d´état in 1952, he was interrupted because of his activities against the regime. He was professor of Physiology in the Medical Faculty of the University of Havana and professor of Bacteriology in the Nursing School located in “Calixto García” University Hospital; he also worked as a doctor in this hospital and in “Maternidad Obrera” Hospital. After the triumph of the Revolution, he was member of the Medical School teaching staff while most of the doctors renounced their professional work and went to the United States of America encouraged by the counterrevolution. He was founder of the Higher Institute of Basic and Pre-Clinical Sciences “Victoria de Girón” and Full Professor of Physiology.