Susana López Charretón, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Susana López Charretón

Mexican virologist specialized in rotaviruses and co-recipient of the Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology (UNESCO, 2001)

Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1957

Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico

Profession: biologist, virologist

Nationality: Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Susana López Charretón (born 19 June 1957 in Mexico City) is a Mexican virologist specialized in rotaviri.
She was a co-recipient (along her husband, Carlos Arias Ortiz) of both the 2001 Carlos J.
Finlay Prize for Microbiology and the 2008 TWAS Prize in Biology.
On 2012, she also received the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science – Latin America "for identifying how rotaviruses cause the death of 600,000 children each year".López Charretón holds a bachelor's degree (1980), a master's degree (1983) and a doctorate degree (1986) in basic biomedical research from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and currently works for the Institute of Biotechnology of the same university.From 2000 to 2010 she was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar.