Favaloro University is an educational and research institution, reference in the field of knowledge of health sciences, neurosciences, natural sciences and bioengineering. Academic excellence, educational quality and promoting reflection on the humanistic thinking and social commitment are their distinctive values. This university, dynamic and open to the community, was driven by one of the most important Argentine twentieth century, Dr. Rene Favaloro. The May 9, 1967, Dr. René G. Favaloro performed the first successful surgery of coronary artery bypass using the saphenous vein. The procedure was performed at the Cleveland Clinic in the United States and represented one of the most important milestones in world medicine. This surgery and thousands of procedures that followed, it became one of the most recognized and respected professionals in the world.