List of Venezuelans - Medicine

Medicine

  • Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan born American, Nobel Prize of Medicine in (1980).
  • José Gregorio Hernández, and religious figure (Catholic religion).
  • Marcel Roche, physician and educator.
  • José María Vargas, modernized the Medicine studies in Venezuela, in the Second half of the nineteenth century.
  • Tobías Lasser, botanist, founder of the Botanic Garden of Caracas
  • Humberto Fernández Morán, research scientist, founder of the Venezuelan Institute for Neurological and Brain Studies and developed the diamond scalpel.
  • Jacinto Convit, medic and scientist, known for developing a vaccine to fight leprosy and his studies to cure different types of cancer. In 1987, he received a Prince of Asturias Award in the Scientific and Technical Research category. Nominated for a Nobel Prize in Medicine by his anti-leprosy vaccine in 1988.

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