Scientist who showed that cancer-triggering viruses could spread from one animal to another, including humans. Born in the Mexican state of Jalisco, her family fled to the US during the Mexican Revolution. After receiving her doctorate, she taught at Georgetown University, taking medical school classes because women were not admitted to its medical school in that era. She graduated as the first female graduate of the medical school. Along with her Baltimore Marine Hospital colleague, Beatrice E. Eddy, she pioneered the field of Viral Oncology.
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