Stefania Jabłońska
Stefania Jabłońska (born September 7, 1920 in Warsaw ; † May 8, 2017 ) was a Polish doctor .
Life
Jabłońska graduated from high school in Warsaw in 1937, where she began studying medicine in the same year . In 1938 she moved to the University in Lviv and the following year to Bishkek , where she graduated in 1942 with a doctorate. She then served at the front for two years. After that, she specialized in dermatology , worked for a year at the Academy of Sciences in Leningrad in the pathology department and from 1946 in the Dermatological Clinic of the University of Warsaw . With a scholarship from the WHO , she went to the University of Pennsylvania for a year in 1949 before receiving her doctorate in Warsaw in 1950. Her dissertation was on histological studies of skin reactions to tuberculin and tuberculosis extracts. In 1951 she qualified as a professor and became an associate professor of dermatology at the Warsaw Medical School , then in 1954 director of the university's dermatological clinic. From 1954 until her retirement in 1990 she was a full professor.
She had numerous students in Poland (69 doctoral students, 15 of her students became professors).
Services
She dealt with scleroderma and the human papillomaviruses (wart virus, HPV), the cancer they cause, and the development of a vaccine against the viruses. She worked with the French Gérard Orth from the Pasteur Institute . They specifically studied (as a model) the virus that causes EV ( Epidermodysplasia verruciformis ). The virus is usually not very infectious, with the exception of patients with the rare hereditary disease EV, in whom these viruses cause malignant tumors in one third of cases. Jabłońska and Orth were able to identify and characterize the viruses that cause malignant tumors. There were only two of the wart viruses found in EV patients. They also showed that for the development of malignant tumors, which takes many years in EV patients, certain additional factors (such as ultraviolet radiation ) must be added .
Awards
She had been a member of the Leopoldina since 1964 . In 1985 she received the Robert Koch Prize together with Gérard Orth . In 1992 she was awarded the Alfred Marchionini Gold Medal. In 2002 she received the Maria M. Duran Medal from the International Society of Dermatology.
From 1962 to 1982 and 1987 to 1995 she was President of the Polish Society of Dermatology.
Fonts (selection)
- (Eds.) Scleroderma and Pseudoscleroderma. Polish Medical Publishers, Warsaw 1975.
literature
- Annette Bopp: Warts, Viruses and Tumors. In: The time . November 22, 1985.
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefania Jabłońska in the catalog of the German National Library
- Stefania Jabłońska in the AcademiaNet database of renowned scientists
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zmarła prof. Stefania Jabłońska, wybitny dermatolog i stypendystka WHO. In: polsatnews.pl. Telewizja Polsat, May 9, 2017, accessed May 10, 2017 (Polish).
- ↑ Dates of birth from the yearbook of the Leopoldina
- ↑ The cause of cervical cancer by these viruses was proven by Harald zur Hausen , who received the Nobel Prize for it.
- ↑ Member entry of Stefania Jablonska at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 1, 2016.
- ^ The winners: Alfred Marchionini Medal in Gold , website of the Alfred Marchionini Foundation, accessed on March 1, 2016.
- ↑ Maria Duran Prize for Jablonska, with photo
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jabłońska, Stefania |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 2017 |