Eugene Cota-Robles, PhD
Dr. Eugene V. Cota-Robles was born on July 13, 1926 in Nogales, Arizona, to Mexican immigrant school teachers from Pueblo Nuevo, Sonora, Mexico. In 1944 he enlisted for the U.S. Navy, serving as a signalman aboard the U.S.S. Baltimore during World War II. After being discharged he received his BS (1950) in Bacteriology from the […]
Susana López Charretón, PhD
Dr. Susana López Charretón is a virologist studying rotaviruses. She was born in Mexico City in 1957, and knew she wanted to be a scientist from a young age. As a child she did experiments on frozen flies and lizards. She took this curiosity and love of science with her in her education at the […]
Sarah Elizabeth Stewart, MD, PhD
Dr. Sara Elizabeth Stewart, born in Tecalitlán, Jalisco, Mexico in 1905, was a researcher who pioneered the field of viral oncology. Her father was an American mining engineer and her mother was Mexican. To escape the Mexican revolution, her family moved to the United States in 1911. She received two Bachelor’s degrees (1927) in Home […]
Dr. Ruth Ella Moore
Dr. Ruth Ella Moore was a bacteriologist whose research led to a better understanding of tuberculosis, gut microbiome, tooth decay, and blood types.
Dr. Jane Hinton
Dr. Jane Hinton was an African American WWII vet who invented a special agar to test antibiotic susceptibility.
Dorothy Mclendon
Dorothy McClendon, born in Louisiana, was an African-American microbiologist who researched microorganisms that degraded military tank insulation.