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Rachel Carson was a marine biologist from the United States. She is credited with being the founder of the environmental movement. The publishing of her environmental science book, Silent Spring, in 1962 led to the questioning of usage of harmful pesticides and other chemicals in agricultural settings. This led to a campaign to ultimately discredit Carson. However, the federal government called for a review of DDT which concluded with DDT being banned. Carson later passed away from cancer in 1964 at 57 years old.

Her work allowed for a further potential understanding of different diseases such as tumors, delayed healing, malformations, and others. This research led to her winning the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine alongside Stanley Cohen (biochemist) in 1986. While making advancements in medicine and science, Rita Levi-Montalcini was also active politically throughout her life.

Angela Restrepo Moreno is a microbiologist from Colombia. She first gained interest in tiny organisms when she had the opportunity to view them through a microscope that belonged to her grandfather. While Restrepo has a variety of research, her main area of research is fungi and their causes of diseases. Her work led her to develop research on a disease caused by fungi that has only been diagnosed in Latin America but was originally found in Brazil: Paracoccidioidomycosis. Research groups also developed by Restrepo have begun studying two routes: the relationship between humans, fungi, and the environment and also how the cells within the fungi work.

Along with her research, Restrepo co-founded a non-profit that is devoted to scientific research named Corporation for Biological Research (CIB). Angela Restrepo Moreno was awarded the SCOPUS Prize in 2007 for her numerous amounts of publications. She currently resides in Colombia and continues her research.

Susana López Charretón was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1957. She’s a virologist whose area of study focused on the Rotavirus. When she initially began studying Rotavirus, it had only been discovered four years earlier. Susana’s main job was to study how the virus entered cells and its ways of multiplying. Because of her, and several others, work other scientists were able to learn about more details of the virus. Now, her research focuses on the virus’s ability to recognize the cells it infects.

Along with her husband, Susana Lopez Charreton was awared Carlos J. Finlay prize for Microbiology in 2001. She also received the Loreal-UNESCO prize titled “Woman in Science” in 2012. Charreton has also received several other awards for her research.

Liliana Quintanar Vera is a Mexican chemist. Currently a researcher at the Department of Chemistry of the Center of Investigation and Advanced Studies, Vera’s research currently focuses on neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and Prion disease and also on degenerative diseases like diabetes and cataracts. For this research she focused on how copper interacts with the proteins of the neurodegenerative diseases mentioned before.

Liliana’s awards include the Mexican Academy of Sciences Research Prize for Science in 2017, the Marcos Moshinsky Chair award in 2016, the Fullbright Scholarship in 2014, and the L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science Award in 2007.