Saveria Campo

Professor Maria Saveria Campo FRSE (born 1947), known as Saveria, is an Italian viral oncologist, known for being the first person to demonstrate an effective papillomavirus vaccine.[1]

Professor

Saveria Campo
Born
Maria Saveria Campo

1947 (age 73–74)
NationalityItalian
OccupationViral oncologist
Websitewww.gla.ac.uk/schools/vet/staff/?action=person&id=4cd5e6ec8a96

Campo graduated summa cum laude from the University of Palermo, Italy in 1969, then obtained a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1973.[2]

From 1973 to 1976 she worked in Edinburgh's department of genetics, and from 1976 to 1981 in the department of zoology.[2]

In 1982 she took up a position leading the papillomavirus research group at the Beatson institute for cancer research at the University of Glasgow. She became a professor there in 1992 and in 1999 became professor of viral oncology at Glasgow's institute of comparative medicine.[2][1]

She served on a Royal Society Research Grants Scheme board from 2008 to 2009.[3]

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2006.[2][4]

References
  1. "Biography of Saveria Campo". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  2. Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2009). History of Cervical Cancer and the Role of the Human Papillomavirus, 1960-2000. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-123-3. Wikidata Q29581772.
  3. "Saveria Campo". Royal Society. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  4. "Professor Maria Saveria Campo FRSE". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 4 July 2017.


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