Krieger was born to a family of
German origins, in the small city of Cerro Largo, in the southernmost state of Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul. In 1946, he moved to
Porto Alegre to study
medicine at the
Medical School of Porto Alegre. There, while he was a student, he began working with Prof. Rubens Maciel at the Cardiology Department and decided to pursue a university career in the clinical area. In 1954, he started a training program for new physiologists, created by
CAPES in Porto Alegre under the coordination of Prof. Maciel. Since Brazil had few physiological research labs at the time, the program was partly supervised by
Argentine physiologists, under Prof.
Bernardo Houssay's leadership (
Nobel Prize, 1947). Having made himself noted for his brilliance and dedication, young Eduardo was invited to work on experimental
hypertension with Prof.
Eduardo Braun-Menéndez in Porto Alegre and
Buenos Aires, at the famous
Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental created by Houssay. This opportunity represented a major influence on his later professional career. He then completed his training in cardiovascular physiology with Prof. W. Hamilton at the
University of Georgia at
Augusta,
U.S., from 1956 to 1957. Back in Brazil, he was invited to work at the Department of Physiology of the recently created
School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto of the
University of São Paulo, in the city of
Ribeirão Preto, state of
São Paulo. His sponsor was Prof.
Miguel Rolando Covian, the new departmental chairman and an Argentine
neurophysiologist who had belonged to Prof. Houssay's group and who became very impressed with Krieger during his formative years in Porto Alegre and Buenos Aires. Covian was not disappointed: Krieger completed his doctoral dissertation at Ribeirão Preto under the supervision of Prof. Covian and quickly matured as a strong scientific leader by himself. Besides heading an internationally renowned research group on experimental hypertension, he created the department's cardiovascular physiology group, which became a very influential school for many new physiologists in Brazil. As a result, new laboratories headed by Krieger's former pupils were created in several other universities, in Ribeirão Preto,
São Paulo,
Belo Horizonte,
Vitória,
Porto Alegre and
Recife. Dr. Krieger retired in 1983 from the Medical School of Ribeirão Preto, and since then has been working in hypertension research at the
Heart Institute of the
Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, in
São Paulo City, having under his direction a multidisciplinary research group, including
molecular biologists, physiologists and clinical physicians. He is married and has a son and a daughter, both scientists and research professors. Professor Krieger is co-president designate of the 2014
World Health Summit. ==Research==