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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Canessa and the second or maternal family name is Ossandón.
Mitzy Canessa
Born(1930-07-15)15 July 1930
Antofagasta, Chile
Died1 February 1997(1997-02-01) (aged 66)
OccupationPhysiologist
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1959, 1961)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Chile
Academic work
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Mitzy Canessa Ossandón[1] (15 July 1930 – 1 February 1997) was a Chilean renal physiologist. She worked as a professor at the University of Chile and, as an exile from the Pinochet dictatorship, worked at Harvard Medical School in the United States. She was a two-time Guggenheim Fellow.

Biography

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Canessa was born on 15 July 1930 in Antofagasta, a port city in northern Chile.[2] She studied at the University of Chile, where she obtained her degree in pharmaceutical chemistry in 1952.[3] In 1959,[4] she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study renal physiology.[2] She was awarded a second one in 1961.[4] She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.[3][5]

Canessa remained at the University of Chile as a professor; originally working at the School of Pharmacy as an assistant professor,[2] she later moved to their Faculty of Medicine.[3] She became a full professor at the University of Chile's Faculty of Sciences since its inception in the 1960s, something Cecilia Hidalgo Tapia considered her instrumental in.[3] She also did research at the Cell Physiology Laboratory in Montemar,[3] as well as at the Hospital del Salvador's renal function laboratory.[2] She served as director of the University of Chile Graduate School in 1974.[1]

In 1974, Canessa began working at Harvard Medical School,[3] as one of several scientists exiled from the country due to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.[6] During her time at Harvard, she did research on hypertension.[3] She was also part of Massachusetts General Hospital's Laboratory of Renal Biophysics,[7][8] as well as Brigham and Women's Hospital Endocrine-Hypertension Division.[9] In the 1990s, she returned from the United States and rejoined the University of Chile.[3]

Canessa died on 1 February 1997.[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Escuela de Postgrado". Universiiy of Chile Faculty of Sciences (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 July 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d Reports of the President and of the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1959. p. 115.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Hidalgo Tapia, María Cecilia (21 September 2015). "Mujeres y ciencia". Anales de la Universidad de Chile (in Spanish). 0 (8): 34-35. doi:10.5354/0717-8883.2015.37306. ISSN 0717-8883.
  4. ^ a b "Mitzy Canessa". Guggenheim Fellows. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
  5. ^ Latorre, Ramón, ed. (2013). Ionic Channels in Cells and Model Systems. Plenum Press. p. xii.
  6. ^ Gutiérrez, Claudio (2023). "Ciencias, golpe de Estado y dictadura en Chile". Anales de la Universidad de Chile. 21: 305.
  7. ^ Huidobro-Toro, J. Pablo; Canessa, Mitzy; Fischer, Sigmund (4 June 1976). "Interaction of morphine with cholesterol monolayers". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 436 (1): 237–241. doi:10.1016/0005-2736(76)90234-0. ISSN 0005-2736.
  8. ^ Labarca, Pedro; Canessa, Mitzy; Leaf, Alexander (1 December 1977). "Metabolic cost of sodium transport in toad urinary bladder". The Journal of Membrane Biology. 32 (1): 383–401. doi:10.1007/BF01905229. ISSN 1432-1424.
  9. ^ a b Romero, José R.; Fabry, Mary E.; Suzuka, Sandra M.; Costantini, Frank; Nagel, Ronald L.; Canessa, Mitzy (1997). "K:CI cotransport in red cells of transgenic mice expressing high levels of human hemoglobin S". American Journal of Hematology. 55 (2): 112–114. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1096-8652(199706)55:2<112::AID-AJH11>3.0.CO;2-G.
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