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María Elena Bottazzi: The Latina Scientist Who Helped Create a COVID-19 Vaccine
When María Elena Bottazzi left Honduras, she never expected to one day be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Bottazzi is a microbiologist at the Texas’s Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Tex. She, along with Dr. Peter Hotez of Baylor Medicine, created the Corbevax vaccine for COVID-19.They wanted to create a unique vaccine that was patent-free and cheaper to produce than the vaccines already on the market…
UTHealth's Melissa Valerio named Chancellor's Health Fellow
Melissa Valerio, Ph.D., regional dean of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health San Antonio Regional Campus, has been named a 2016 Chancellor’s Fellow for The University of Texas System Office of Health Affairs…