Anita Dolly Panek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Anita Dolly Panek

Brazilian biochemist

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1930

Place of Birth: Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: botanist, biochemist

Nationality: Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Anita Dolly Haubenstock Panek is a Brazilian biochemist.
She emigrated to Brazil because of World War II from Poland.
She received a B.Sc.
in Chemistry, 1954 and a Ph.D.
in 1962.
She became a professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. In 1988 she showed that endogenous trehalose protects cells against the damage caused by freezing.