Irena Koprowska
Irena Koprowska (née Grasberg) | |
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Born | Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland | 12 May 1917
Died | 16 August 2012 Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, U.S. | (aged 95)
Nationality | Polish |
Citizenship | Poland, United States |
Known for | Leader in the field of Cytopathology |
Spouse(s) | Hilary Koprowski (m. 1938; 2 children) |
Awards | Papanikolaou Award(1985) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Cytopathology |
Irena Koprowska, née Grasberg (May 12, 1917, Warsaw - August 16, 2012, Wynnewood Pennsylvania, USA)[1] was a Polish-born pathologist in the United States, and the first woman to be named a full professor at Hahnemann Medical College, now Drexel University College of Medicine.[2]
Koprowska was mentored by Dr. Georgios Papanikolaou the inventor of the "Pap smear", and went on to become a leader in the field of cytopathology.[3][2] Dr. Koprowska was a founding member of the Inter Society Council of Cytology, which became the American Society of Cytopathology and which, in 1985, gave her its Papanikolaou Award.[2] Additionally, she co-authored, with Dr. George Papanicolaou, a case report of the earliest diagnosis of lung cancer by a sputum smear.[2]
Grasberg married Hilary Koprowski, a virologist who discovered the first effective oral polio vaccine.
References[]
- ^ "Obituary of Irena Koprowska".
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Changing the Face of Medicine".
- ^ Koprowska I (1998). A Woman Wanders Through Life and Science. SUNY press.
- http://articles.philly.com/2012-08-27/news/33403544_1_lung-cancer-pathology-professor-medicine-reports
- Koprowska, I, A Woman Wanders Through Life and Science, SUNY series, Voices of Immigrant Women, SUNY press 1998
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_187.html
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cncy.21250001/abstract
- pl:Irena Koprowska
- 1917 births
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- 20th-century Polish Jews
- Polish emigrants to the United States
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