On his Twitter account, the president wrote, ‘What an honor for #Cuba to have a scientist like Maria Guadalupe Guzman being granted the L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science. Congratulations, professor, your words distinguish you. This award is also for the Cuban Revolution…’

Guzman, director of Research, Diagnosis and Reference at the Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute (IPK), won the 2022 UNESCO Women and Science Award for her research on dengue fever.

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