Belkisyole Alarcón de Noya

Belkisyole Alarcón de Noya (born 11 January 1952) is a Venezuelan physician with a PhD in medical parasitology. She is a pioneer in studies in this area of medicine and she received the 2017 Women in Science Award, granted by the Academy of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences of Venezuela.

Biography Her parents are Gustavo Alarcón and Lida Marcano de Alarcón and Belkisyole is the oldest of four siblings. She studied elementary education at Colegio La Florida in Caracas, where she received the medal of honor in all primary courses. While she lived in Simón Rodríguez and before that in La Pastora. Starting in 1963, Belkisyole studied high school at Colegio Santo Domingo de Guzmán, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1968. On 20 October 1975 the Noya's graduated as physicians and on 5 September 1975 Belkisyolé and Oscar Noya married.

She and her husband joined the Central University of Venezuela in 1980 to study parasitology, and Belkis graduated from Tulane University, United States, with a PhD Field work constituted much of the work of her first years at the university, among which the epidemiological work of bilharzia in Caraballeda, the antimalarial vaccine project with the Sp f 66, pioneering work in this area, stand out.