Laima Griciūtė

Liudvika Laima Griciūtė (15 April 1926 – 3 November 2018) was a Lithuanian oncologist and habilitated Doctor of Biomedical Sciences.

Biography In 1941 Griciūtė and her parents were forcefully displaced to Altai Krai, Sakha Republic, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. Following her return to Lithuania in 1946 she studied at the Kaunas University medical faculty. In 1950 she was a student at the Kaunas Medical Institute. From 1952 to 1955, she undertook a doctoral program at the Leningrad Institute of Oncology. In 1955 she defended her candidate thesis in medical sciences and in 1966 her medical sciences doctoral thesis on „Eksperimentiniai plaučių navikai“ (Experimental lung tumors). In 1989 she was awarded with a professor title. In 1974 Griciūtė participated in an international expedition on the research of environmental carcinogens in Iran. In 2002 Griciūtė was awarded with a Lithuanian Science Prize.