In 1929, Sacerdote de Lustig decided to study medicine in Italy, at a time when women were not choosing this career.

She cultivated living cells in vitro, a technique that allows the study of different types of viruses and tumors.

[2] When the epidemic of poliomyelitis occurred, Sacerdote de Lustig was sent by the World Health Organization to the United States to learn about the work of the professor Jonas Salk.

When she returned to Argentina, she inoculated herself in public and did the same with her children to convince the population of the benefits of the polio vaccine.

[4] There are more than 180 of her scientific publications in the records of the Institute of Oncology Ángel H. Roffo, the Instituto Malbrán and CONICET.