With more than 30 years of experience, Nubia Muñoz, from Cali, is a brilliant mind who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in medicine and developed the vaccine against human papillomavirus.
She is an example of discipline, dedication and wisdom. Although her financial resources were not abundant in her home, she managed to become a prominent scientist andShe was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2008 by the International Association of Epidemiology.
“I did my entire medical career here at the Universidad del Valle and I also did a specialty in pathology, thanks to my main mentor who was Pelayo Correa, an eminent pathologist who is one of the fathers of cancer epidemiology in Colombia and America. Latina”.
Said Nubia Muñoz Calero, a scientist from Cali, noted for her cancer research.
The Cali scientist who graduated from the Universidad del Valle managed to confirm the link between the human papillomavirus and cervical cancer. His valued research allowed laboratories to develop the vaccine against the human papillomavirus
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How were your beginnings in research?
“I went to the United States to do experimental pathology at the American Cancer Institute and then epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. With this very solid training I went to the international agency for cancer research in Lyon and focused especially on cancers that were important for developing countries such as stomach cancer, cervical cancer, liver cancer and esophageal cancer. ”.
The scientist from Cali explained.
Currently, Dr. Nubia Muñoz, pride of this city, lives in France and feels immense satisfaction knowing that 60% of the countries in the world have introduced this vaccine.
“The most important thing was when President Santos called me in 2012 to participate in the launch of the vaccination program. The program started fantastic because they had coverage as good as that of Australia.”
Nubia Muñoz indicated.
A call to Colombian families
However, the prominent researcher, who was recently visiting Cali, expressed a concern and left advice for all families in the region.
“Do not waste the opportunity, parents to prevent this cancer in their daughters, by having them vaccinated, and mothers to prevent themselves by using the HPV test to detect precancerous lesions.”
The prominent scientist concluded.
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