Cecilia Bouzat

Cecilia Bouzat (born 10 December 1961) is an Argentine biochemist, who studies neurological disorders. In 2014 she was honored as the Latin American Laureate by the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.

Early life and education Cecilia Bouzat was born on 10 December 1961, in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. As a daughter and granddaughter of doctors, she was the third of six children and became interested in science early on in her education. It was in Bouzat's second or third year of college that she believed she wanted to root her career in the sciences. She received a degree and PhD in Biochemical Sciences at the Universidad Nacional del Sur of Bahía Blanca in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Following the completion of her advanced degrees, Bouzat completed a postdoctorate study in the United States of America at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1994.

Honors and awards In 2005, Bouzat was a Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences. In 2007, Bouzat had won a research scholarship from the same body who award the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science. The citation mentions "her contribution to our understanding of how brain cells communicate among themselves and with muscles". As a result, she was received and congratulated by the Argentine Minister of Science, Lino Barañao, and the Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.