Anita Dolly Haubenstock Panek is a Brazilian biochemist. She emigrated from Poland to Brazil because of World War II. She received a B.Sc. in Chemistry, 1954 and a Ph.D. in 1962. She became a professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.[1]

In 1988 she showed that endogenous trehalose protects cells against the damage caused by freezing.

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  1. ^ "Anita D. Panek's research". ResearchGate.
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