The scientist Christiane Dosne de Pasqualini, a researcher specializing in experimental medicine in leukemia and the first woman to have a seat in the National Academy of Medicine, died this Friday morning at the age of 102.
Dosne was born in Paris in 1920 already six years immigrated to canada where he grew up There he trained at Mc.Gill University, located in Montreal.
in 1942At the age of 22, she won a women’s scholarship from the Canadian Federation of University Women that allowed her to obtain financing to work in Buenos Aires together with Bernardo Houssay. In July of the same year settled in Buenos Aires.
In addition, he served as Conicet researcher from 1963 to 2002. Among the many awards he has won are the Konex Prize for Biomedical Sciences in 1993 and the Unifem-NOEL prize for his career in 1995, together with Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
In 2007with 87 years published the book “I wanted what I did. Autobiography of a Scientific Investigator”, which was later republished in English.
In dialogue with Télam, his granddaughter, the actress Belén Pasqualini, expressed the need for Christiane’s passing to be made public.
Belen In 2017, he performed the play “Christiane, a scientific biomusical”, in tribute to his grandmother.
This Saturday at 12 the response in the Garden of Peace in Pilar.
