Anna Stecksén

Anna Magdalena Stecksén (May 27, 1870 – October 15, 1904) was a Swedish scientist, physician and pathologist.

[1] She was awarded a Bachelor of Arts at Uppsala University in 1890, and became a student at Karolinska institutet the same year.

Her thesis, Studie öfver Curtis blastomyocel - från svulst - etiologisk synpunk investigated whether there was any truth in the then-popular theory that cancer was caused by Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

[1][3] Her findings were not conclusive, but interesting enough for her to raise the funds to continue her research.

[4] She contracted an infection caused by her work in her laboratory in 1902 [5] which eventually led to her death in 1904, in Södertälje.