Saveria Campo
Professor Maria Saveria Campo , known as Saveria, is an Italian viral oncologist, known for being the first person to demonstrate an effective papillomavirus vaccine.
Campo graduated summa cum laude from the University of Palermo, Italy in 1969, then obtained a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1973.
From 1973 to 1976 she worked in Edinburgh's department of genetics, and from 1976 to 1981 in the department of zoology.
In 1982 she took up a position leading the papillomavirus research group at the Beatson institute for cancer research at the University of Glasgow. She became a professor there in 1992 and in 1999 became professor of viral oncology at Glasgow's institute of comparative medicine.
She served on a Royal Society Research Grants Scheme board from 2008 to 2009.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2006.
