[Semblance of Dr. Luis Benítez Bribiesca].

E-mail: [email protected] Medical publishing activity is in mourning. A rigid and grievous sad mantle covers some of the most important biomedical and clinical journals of the Latin American realm. Unhappily, Dr. Luis Benítez Bribiesca, a distinguished colleague who devoted a significant part of his life as an investigator and academician to the diffusion of scientific knowledge, passed away on November 30, 2015. For over three decades, I had the honorable privilege of closely collaborating with Dr. Benítez in this stimulating, though not always well understood, publishing work. I can affirm that his demise leaves an enormous void, very difficult to fill, particularly due to the unfortunate lack of interest by new generations on academic publishing activities. Dr. Benítez completed his training as a physician at the Military Medical School in 1957. He specialized in pathology at the Mallory Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, and had a post-doctorate visiting scholarship in experimental pathology in Bonn, Germany, granted by the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He was head of the Histochemistry Section from the Scientific Research Department of the National Institute of Social Security (IMSS – Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social) from 1968 to 1978. Subsequently, he founded and directed the Oncologic Diseases Medical Research Unit from the Oncology Hospital of the IMSS National Medical Center from 1978 until the year 2000. He contributed to scientific literature with the PERMANYER www.permanyer.com