In 1991, she was a Fogarty Fellow. López Charretón won the Funsalud Biennial Award in Gastrointestinal Diseases from the Mexican Foundation for Health in 2000 and 2002. In 2001, she was awarded the Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In 2000, Dr. López Charretón became an International Research Scholar with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) providing funding for the potential for transformative impact of her rotavirus research. In 2010, HHMI asked López Charretón what she would do to change the world in one year. She responded, "I would invest that year in convincing people who make enormous amounts of money (TV and movie stars, singers, athletes, etc.) to donate just a small part of their earnings to make a well-administered foundation, with the sole purpose of ensuring that every child in underdeveloped countries has access to all available vaccines, independent of their cost, and to guarantee that these children are nourished properly during the first five years of their lives. This would help give a fair start in life to the people born in underdeveloped nations." In 2012, López Charretón won the LÓréal-UNESCO Prize for Women in Science, a prestigious prize given to only one woman scientist per continent each year. López Charretón won the award for Latin America for "identifying how rotaviruses cause the death of 600,000 children each year." That same year, she was also awarded the Omecihuatl Medal from the Women's Institute of Mexico City. In 2013, López Charretón received the "Premio Universidad Nacional" for Natural Sciences research. And in 2014 she was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women. Personal life She was a co-recipient (along her husband, Carlos Arias Ortiz) of both the 2001 Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology and the 2008 TWAS Prize in Biology. López Charretón and her husband have two children, Rodrigo and Alejandra. She lives in Mexico City. References External links Profile at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Personal web page at the Institute of Biotechnology - UNAM (in Spanish) Living people Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences Mexican biochemists Women biochemists Mexican women chemists Women virologists National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni National Autonomous University of Mexico faculty Scientists from Mexico City 1957 births L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science laureates 20th-century Mexican women scientists 21st-century Mexican women scientists BBC 100 Women TWAS laureates 21st-century Mexican