Keity Souza Santos
Keity Souza Santos | |
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| Occupation | Immunologist |
| Employer | University of São Paulo |
| Awards | São Paulo Research Foundation's Young Investigator Award |
Keity Souza Santos is an
Apis mellifera, which is also called the "Africanized honeybee."[1] She did post-doctoral work in Salzburg, in Austria, and at Cornell University in Ithaca, in the USA.[2] Her later work has been on identifying venom proteins in various insect stings, and in some cases, identifying the damage that they cause to tissues in the human body.[1]
Santos is an international member of the
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.[3]
Santos was expected to give birth to twins in 2013.[1]
Santos was awarded the Young Investigator Award by the São Paulo Research Foundation.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Petherick, Anna (7 March 2013). "Keity Souza Santos: Venom Detective". Nature. 495: 29–30. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
- ^ a b "Keity Souza Santos". Escavador.
- ^ "New Members and Fellows" (PDF). Impact. 19 (1). Winter 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2015.[permanent dead link]
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