Keity Souza Santos is an immunologist working at the allergy and immunology department of the University of São Paulo's school of medicine.[1] Santos stated that she was the first person in her family to express interest in science as a career.[1] She was inspired to become a biologist by the story of Dolly the sheep,[1] the first mammalclone. She received her bachelor's degreeinBiological Sciences from the University of São Paulo in 2003, and her doctorateinAllergy and Immunopathology in 2008 from the same institution.[2] During her doctorate, she worked to find an anti-venom for the sting of Apis mellifera, which is also called the "Africanized honeybee."[1] She did post-doctoral work in Salzburg, in Austria, and at Cornell UniversityinIthaca, in the USA.[2] Her later work has been on identifying venom proteins in various insect stings, and in some cases, identifying the damage that they cause to tissues in the human body.[1]
