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María Nubia Muñoz Calero was born in Cali, Colombia, on February/7/1940. -
She studied at the Departmental Women's High School in Cali. -
In 1945, her father died of diphtheria. -
In 1958, she entered the Faculty of Medicine at the Valle University. -
She graduated in 1964. -
She studied Virology and Epidemiology at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda. -
She completed a specialization in Pathology in 1967 at the Valle University. -
She obtained a master's degree in Public Health with an emphasis on cancer epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. -
In 1986, she became the head of the Field Studies and Intervention Unit at the International Agency for Research on Cancer -
In 1993, Nubia Muñoz organized the first international meeting on VPH vaccines. -
In 2008, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the cause of cervical cancer. -
She was awarded the Boyacá Cross in 2011.