Ana María López Colomé


Ana María López Colomé is a distinguished Mexican biochemist who won the 2002 L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in ScienceLatin America for her studies on the human retina and the prevention of retinitis pigmentosa and several retinopathies.
López Colomé is a former head of the Department of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine and a researcher at the Institute of Cellular Physiology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She holds a bachelor's degree in Biology, a master's degree in Chemistry and a doctorate degree in Biochemistry.

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