Silvio Pires Gomes is a Professor of Animal Anatomy at the School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of São Paulo (FMVZ-USP), Brazil, where he is involved in undergraduate and graduate education. He holds a Master's degree and a PhD in Sciences from the University of São Paulo and has completed postdoctoral training in Cell and Developmental Biology, Veterinary Sciences, Cancer Metabolism, and Structural and Functional Biology. His academic and research activities focus on comparative and translational veterinary anatomy, morphology, histology, stereology, developmental biology, and experimental pathology, with particular emphasis on hepatic morphology and development. He participates in and coordinates research projects involving liver structure, experimental models, fetal and neonatal development, and quantitative morphological analysis. His teaching activities at undergraduate and graduate levels include animal anatomy, applied anatomy, comparative anatomy, functional morphology, and quantitative methods in morphology. His research interests include comparative and translational veterinary anatomy, developmental biology, liver morphology, histology, stereology, experimental pathology, and quantitative morphology.