Nubia Muñoz

Nubia Muñoz (* around 1940 ) is a Colombian epidemiologist . She is known for her epidemiological studies on the link between human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer .

Muñoz comes from a humble background, the father was a farm worker and died of diphtheria when she was six years old. She studied medicine at the Universidad del Valle in Cali , where she was the best student five years in a row and was reimbursed for the study costs, and after graduating in 1964 she turned to pathology, where she helped its director Pelayo Correa to set up a cancer registry. With a scholarship from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), she studied at Johns Hopkins University in 1968/69 , where she completed her master's degree in public health in 1970. She then worked at the IARC headquarters in Lyon and at the National Cancer Institutein Bethesda , where she was researching herpes viruses as a possible cause of cervical cancer. In the mid-1980s, she got her own working group at the IARC and began large-scale epidemiological studies in 30 countries showing the link between cervical cancer and wart virus (HPV) infection. With her team, she also identified the genotypes of HPV that were particularly carcinogenic, so that targeted vaccine development was possible. In 1993 she organized the first international conference on vaccines against HPV.

In 2001 she retired from the IARC, but is still active at the Catalan Institute of Oncology in Barcelona and at the National Cancer Research Institute in Bogotá (as Professor Emeritus).

For 2017, Muñoz was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award . In 2009 she received the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award and in the same year the Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Prize for Cancer Research (together with Sir Richard Peto ). She received the first Richard Doll Prize in Epidemiology in 2008 . In 2004 she was accepted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars.

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SURNAME	Muñoz, Nubia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Colombian medic
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1940

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