Domingo Santo Liotta, MD
Domingo Liotta was born to Italian immigrant parents on November 29th, 1924, in Diamante, Argentina. He received his MD (1949) from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, He stayed as a Surgical Resident and went on to obtain his Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery (1953). While his doctorate work was on the Clinical Anatomy of Common […]
Mario Molina, PhD
Mario José Molina-Pasquel Henríquez was born in Mexico City, Mexico, on March 19th, 1943. At a young age, Mario showed an aptitude for chemistry, which his family nurtured. He received a BS (1965) in Chemical Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He spent two years studying Polymer Kinetics at the University of Freiburg, […]
Claudio Castillón Lévano, PhD
Dr. Claudio Castillón Lévano was born on December 15, 1954 in Trujillo, Peru and would go on to be the most diverse and prolific Hispanic inventor of our time. He earned his BS and MS in Telecommunications Engineering before earning his PhD in Electrical Engineering at the National University of Engineering in Lima, Peru. Through […]
Baruj Benacerraf, MD
Baruj Benacerraf was born in 1920 in Caracas, Venezuela to Spanish-Jewish parents. His early childhood was spent in Paris, France where his family stayed until the early 1930s before fleeing back to Venezuela under the threat of the Second World War. Benacerraf’s father was a textile merchant and importer, and hoped his son would follow […]
Carlos Juan Finlay, MD
Born in 1833 in Cuba, Carlos Juan Finlay was a physician and scientist credited with discovering that mosquitoes spread yellow fever. Both of Finlay’s parents were European and he pursued his early education in France. Finlay earned his Medical Degree from Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1855. During his medical studies, he befriended and […]
France A Córdova, PhD
On August 5th, 1947, France Anne-Dominic Córdova was born in Paris to an Irish mother and Mexican-American father who was Chief of the Cooperative for American Remittance to Europe (CARE) Program stationed in France before settling in West Covina, California. She received her bachelor’s degree in English Literature at Stanford University, where she conducted anthropological […]
Franklin Ramón Chang-Díaz, PhD
On April 5th, 1950, Franklin Ramón Chang-Díaz was born in San José, Costa Rica, to a Costa Rican mother and Chinese immigrant father. Franklin immigrated to the US during high school and went on to attend the University of Connecticut, where he earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1973. He then received a PhD […]
Dr. Monique Mendes
Dr. Monique Mendes is a Jamaican born neuroscientist whose research currently focuses on the self-renewal process of microglial brain cells and their response to injury.
Dr. Ruth Ella Moore
Dr. Ruth Ella Moore was a bacteriologist whose research led to a better understanding of tuberculosis, gut microbiome, tooth decay, and blood types.
Dr. Jane Hinton
Dr. Jane Hinton was an African American WWII vet who invented a special agar to test antibiotic susceptibility.