Stefania Jabłońska
Polish dermatologist (1920–2017)
Stefania Jabłońska (born Szela Ginzburg; 7 September 1920 – 8 May 2017) was a Polish physician and professor specializing in dermatology. She worked at the Medical University of Warsaw.
In 1972, she theorized the association of human papilloma viruses with skin cancer in epidermodysplasia verruciformis.
In 1978, Jabłońska and Gerard Orth at the Pasteur Institute discovered HPV-5 in skin cancer. Jabłońska was awarded the 1985 Robert Koch Prize.
She was a recipient of the National Order of Merit and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
Biography
She was born as Szela Ginzburg in 1920 in Mogilev, present-day Belarus, and at the age of six moved to Warsaw. She was the sister of neurologist Irena Hausmanowa-Petrusewicz. Later known as Stefania Jabłońska, she earned her high school diploma in 1937 in Warsaw, where she began to study medicine in the same year at the Medical University of Warsaw. In 1938 she moved to the University of Lviv and a year later to Kyrgyz Technical University, where she graduated in 1942 with a medical degree.
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