Helena Nader
Brazilian biomedical scientist
Helena Bonciani Nader (born November 5, 1947) is a Brazilian biomedical scientist based at the Federal University of São Paulo. She served as president of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science from 2011 to 2017. She works in glycobiology, specialising in the characterisation of proteoglycans. She is a member of The World Academy of Sciences.
Early life and education
Nader was born in São Paulo, to a family of Syrian, Lebanese and Italian descent. She spent her childhood in São Paulo and Curitiba. She was a high school student in the United States. She studied biomedical sciences at the Federal University of São Paulo and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1970. She simultaneously earned a bachelor's degree in education at the University of São Paulo, before beginning her doctoral studies in molecular biology. She was supervised by Carl Von Peter Dietrich.
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