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Published 08/12/2022

FMUSP professors receive Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig Award of The Municipal Chamber of São Paulo

Solemn session for give the Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig Prize at the São Paulo City Council

Professor Ester Cerdeira Sabino and Professor Thais Mauad, both of FMUSP were awarded the first Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig Prize from the São Paulo City Council, on December 7, 2022.

The purpose of the award is to recognize women scientists, physicians or health professionals who have distinguished themselves in scientific research or in the advancement of medicine. The judging committee is made up of councilors who are part of the Commission for Health, Social Promotion, Work and Women of the Chamber of SP, in addition to four others appointed by the president.

The award was instituted earlier this year and is named after an Austrian doctor and researcher, Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig, who came to Brazil as a child with her family fleeing Nazism. She graduated from USP and made important contributions with studies on Chagas disease and malaria.

Professor Ester Cerdeira Sabino of FMUSP Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Departament holds a PhD in Immunology. She was part of the group of scientists at the Institute of Tropical Medicine that was responsible for the first genetic sequencing of the Sars-CoV-2 virus in Latin America.

Professor Thais Mauad of FMUSP Pathology Departament holds a PhD from USP and a postdoctoral degree from Leiden University Medical Center (HOL). She works in the areas of pulmonary and environmental pathology, with an emphasis on asthma and other chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases.

Watch the Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweing Award in its entirety at https://youtu.be/rGHIfmPZEmI





Fonte: FMUSP Advisory Office of Communications