Stefania Jabłońska

Stefania Jabłońska (born Szela Ginzburg; 7 September 1920 – 8 May 2017) was a Polish physician and professor specializing in dermatology.

In 1972, she theorized the association of human papilloma viruses with skin cancer in epidermodysplasia verruciformis.

[1][2] In 1978, Jabłońska and Gerard Orth at the Pasteur Institute discovered HPV-5 in skin cancer.

[5] She was born as Szela Ginzburg in 1920 in Mogilev, present-day Belarus, and at the age of six moved to Warsaw.

With a grant from the World Health Organization in 1949, she spent a year at the University of Pennsylvania.