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Mabel grew up between the jungle and the sea , in Bahía Solano . From a very young age she used to fish and hunt with her father . She learned about plants and nature from her grandparents ’ ancestral knowledge . This background , united with her scientific training as a biologist , chemist and medical microbiologist , has allowed her to develop in her personality the wisdom of the ancestral together with the rigorous of the scientific . Mabel was an active and curious child . At age 4 , she decided she wanted to become a doctor and cure cancer after seeing a woman on television with the disease . Around the same age , she started tagging along with her aunt , who taught at a local school . By the end of the year , she could already read , so she continued on in school , where she
was always a few years younger than her classmates . Eleven when she started high school , fifteen when she started university , she dealt with the ostracism of being so much younger by starting various clubs and joining other activities . Pursuing her dream of becoming a doctor , Mabel studied biochemistry and then medicine , but upon starting practice as a doctor , she realized she wasn ’ t happy in a hospital watching people suffering all the time . She decided to follow a Masters ’ in Medical Microbiology and then , remembering the woman she saw on television as a young girl , she picked her research thesis in Molecular Epidemiology of Helicobacter pylori in patients with cancer . Then she traveled to Mexico to do a PhD in Biology Science with focus in Molecular Mico-
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