José Puche Álvarez

José Puche Álvarez (Lorca, August 31, 1895 - Mexico, November 3, 1979) was a Spanish physician and scientist.

Educated at the University of Barcelona, ​​he specialized in physiology in Utrecht, Brussels, Ghent and Sweden. Doctorate in Madrid in 1929, obtained the chairs of Valencia and Salamanca. He was rector of the University of Valencia from 1936 to 1938, during the Civil War, while he held the position of General Director of Health. At the end of the war he was exiled in Mexico, participating in the direction of the Technical Committee of Aid to the Spanish Refugees. Years later he joined the National Polytechnic Institute. In 1958 he occupied the Department of Physiology of the Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). From this moment he dedicates the time to the investigation, beginning with the physiology of the regulation of glucose and the ingestion of food. Puche participated in the review commission of the programs of the teaching of the physiology and organized in 1965 the course for the formation of professors of this subject, after to have translated the work of Philip Bard.

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