Maria de Sousa

Maria de Sousa
GCSE GOSE GOIH
Born
Maria Ângela Brito de Sousa

(1939-10-17)17 October 1939
Lisbon, Portugal
Died14 April 2020(2020-04-14) (aged 80)
Arroios, Lisbon, Portugal
OccupationImmunologist

Maria Ângela Brito de Sousa GCSE GOSE GOIH (17 October 1939 – 14 April 2020) was a Portuguese immunologist, science leader poet and writer. She gained international recognition as a medical researcher, as the author of several seminal scientific papers: she was the first to describe thymus-dependent (or T cell) areas in 1966, a fundamental discovery in the mapping of peripheral lymphoid organs; she coined the term "ecotaxis" in 1971, to describe the phenomenon of cells of different origins to migrate and to organize among themselves in very specific lymphoid areas.[1] In the 1980s she focused on the study of hereditary hemochromatosis, an iron overload genetic disease.[2]

  1. ^ Duarte, Delfim (2019). "Ever-changing homes". Porto Biomedical Journal. 4 (2): e33. doi:10.1016/j.pbj.0000000000000033. PMC 6726294. PMID 31595261.
  2. ^ "Professor Maria de Sousa passed away". Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S), University of Porto. Retrieved 16 April 2020.