Anita Dolly Haubenstock Panek is a Brazilian biochemist. She emigrated from Poland to Brazil because of World War II. She received a B.Sc. in Chemistry, 1954 and a Ph.D. in 1962. She became a professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
In 1988 she showed that endogenous trehalose protects cells against the damage caused by freezing.
Memberships
Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1986. Latin American Academy of Sciences, Caracas, Venezuela, 1989. Third World Academy of Sciences, 1989.
Awards
Commander of the National Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil, 1996.
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Anita Dolly Panek
Brazilian scientists
Living people
Polish biochemists
Polish women chemists
Commanders of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil) Brazilian people of Polish-Jewish descent Brazilian women scientists 20th-century Polish women scientists Women biochemists 20th-century women scientists Polish women academics 20th-century Polish scientists Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Polish women Polish emigrants to Brazil