Lydia villa-komaroff biography
Lydia villa-komaroff biography
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Lydia Villa-Komaroff
Mexican American cellular biologist
Lydia Villa-Komaroff (born August 7, ) is a molecular and cellular biologist who has been an academic laboratory scientist, a university administrator, and a business woman.
She was the third[1]Mexican-American woman in the United States to receive a doctorate degree in the sciences () and is a co-founding member of The Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS).[2] Her most notable discovery was in during her post-doctoral research, when she was part of a team that discovered how bacterial cells could be used to generate insulin.[3]
Early life and family
Lydia Villa-Komaroff was born on August 7, , and grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She was the eldest of six children; her father, John, was a teacher and musician and her mother, Drucilla, was a social worker. By the age of nine, Villa-Komaroff knew that she wanted to be a scientist, influ