Nationality Polish Role Physician Awards Robert Koch Prize | Name Stefania Jablonska | |
Notable awards 1985 Robert Koch Prize | ||
Stefania Jabłońska (September 7, 1920) is a Polish physician and professor emeritus of Dermatology at Medical University of Warsaw. In 1972 Jabłońska proposed the association of the human papilloma viruses with skin cancer in epidermodysplasia verruciformis. In 1978 Jabłońska and Gerard Orth at the Pasteur Institute discovered HPV-5 in skin cancer. Jabłońska was awarded the 1985 Robert Koch Prize. She is a recipient of the National Order of Merit and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
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Biography
Stefania Jabłońska was born in Warsaw, Poland. Jabłońska earned her high school diploma in 1937 in Warsaw, where she began to study medicine in the same year at the Medical University of Warsaw. In 1938 she moved to Lwów University and a year later Kyrgyz Technical University, where she graduated in 1942 with a medical degree. She then served two years in the military. She specialized in dermatology, worked for a year at the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Pathology, and in 1946 in the Department of Dermatology of the Medical University of Warsaw. With a grant from the World Health Organization in 1949, she spent a year at the University of Pennsylvania. She received a Doctor of Science in 1950. In 1951 she qualified as a professor. Jabłońska was appointed to head dermatology at the Medical University of Warsaw in 1954. She became professor emeritus in 1990.
Awards and honors
A partial list of Jabłońska's honors and awards.