Nationality Mexican | Name Susana Charreton | |
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Alma mater National Autonomous University of Mexico Notable awards Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology (UNESCO, 2001), TWAS Prize (Biology, 2008) and L\'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science (Latin America, 2012). Nationality Mexican Similar Carlos Arias Ortiz, Ana María López Colomé, José Narro Robles | ||
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Susana López Charretón (born 19 June 1957 in Mexico City) is a Mexican virologist specialized in rotaviri. She was a co-recipient (along her husband, Carlos Arias Ortiz) of both the 2001 Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology and the 2008 TWAS Prize in Biology. On 2012, she also received the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science – Latin America "for identifying how rotaviruses cause the death of 600,000 children each year".
López Charretón holds a bachelor's degree (1980), a master's degree (1983) and a doctorate degree (1986) in basic biomedical research from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and currently works for the Institute of Biotechnology of the same university.
From 2000 to 2010 she was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar.
