Mitzy Canessa Ossandón[1] (15 July 1930 – 1 February 1997) was a Chilean renal physiologist. She worked as a professor at the University of Chile and, as an exile from the Pinochet dictatorship, worked at Harvard Medical School in the United States. She was a two-time Guggenheim Fellow.
Mitzy Canessa | |
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| Born | 15 July 1930 Antofagasta, Chile |
| Died | 1 February 1997 (aged 66) |
| Occupation | Physiologist |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1959, 1961) |
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| Alma mater | University of Chile |
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Biography
editCanessa was born on 15 July 1930 in Antofagasta, a port city in northern Chile.[2] She studied at the University of Chile, where she obtained her degree in pharmaceutical chemistry in 1952.[3] In 1959,[4] she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study renal physiology.[2] She was awarded a second one in 1961.[4] She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.[3][5]
Canessa remained at the University of Chile as a professor; originally working at the School of Pharmacy as an assistant professor,[2] she later moved to their Faculty of Medicine.[3] She became a full professor at the University of Chile's Faculty of Sciences since its inception in the 1960s, something Cecilia Hidalgo Tapia considered her instrumental in.[3] She also did research at the Cell Physiology Laboratory in Montemar,[3] as well as at the Hospital del Salvador's renal function laboratory.[2] She served as director of the University of Chile Graduate School in 1974.[1]
In 1974, Canessa began working at Harvard Medical School,[3] as one of several scientists exiled from the country due to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.[6] During her time at Harvard, she did research on hypertension.[3] She was also part of Massachusetts General Hospital's Laboratory of Renal Biophysics,[7][8] as well as Brigham and Women's Hospital Endocrine-Hypertension Division.[9] In the 1990s, she returned from the United States and rejoined the University of Chile.[3]
Canessa died on 1 February 1997.[9]
References
edit- 1 2 "Escuela de Postgrado". Universiiy of Chile Faculty of Sciences (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 July 2025.
- 1 2 3 4 Reports of the President and of the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1959. p. 115.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Hidalgo Tapia, María Cecilia (21 September 2015). "Mujeres y ciencia". Anales de la Universidad de Chile (in Spanish). 0 (8): 34-35. doi:10.5354/0717-8883.2015.37306. ISSN 0717-8883. Archived from the original on 5 June 2024. Retrieved 24 July 2025.
- 1 2 "Mitzy Canessa". Guggenheim Fellows. Archived from the original on 21 February 2025. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
- ↑ Latorre, Ramón, ed. (2013). Ionic Channels in Cells and Model Systems. Plenum Press. p. xii.
- ↑ Gutiérrez, Claudio (2023). "Ciencias, golpe de Estado y dictadura en Chile". Anales de la Universidad de Chile. 21: 305.
- ↑ Huidobro-Toro, J. Pablo; Canessa, Mitzy; Fischer, Sigmund (4 June 1976). "Interaction of morphine with cholesterol monolayers". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 436 (1): 237–241. doi:10.1016/0005-2736(76)90234-0. ISSN 0005-2736.
- ↑ Labarca, Pedro; Canessa, Mitzy; Leaf, Alexander (1 December 1977). "Metabolic cost of sodium transport in toad urinary bladder". The Journal of Membrane Biology. 32 (1): 383–401. doi:10.1007/BF01905229. ISSN 1432-1424.
- 1 2 Romero, José R.; Fabry, Mary E.; Suzuka, Sandra M.; Costantini, Frank; Nagel, Ronald L.; Canessa, Mitzy (1997). "K:CI cotransport in red cells of transgenic mice expressing high levels of human hemoglobin S". American Journal of Hematology. 55 (2): 112–114. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1096-8652(199706)55:2<112::AID-AJH11>3.0.CO;2-G.