Eugenia del Pino Veintimilla

Eugenia del Pino Veintimilla maintains a successful research program at the Pontifical University in Quito, where she has been a professor of biology since 1972. Her two main interests are the conservation of the Galapagos Islands and the reproductive and developmental physiology of the marsupial tree frog, about which practically nothing was known before she began her work. She graduated from the Pontifical University, was awarded a Master of Science Degree from Vassar College, and a Ph. D. from Emory University. She received a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to conduct research at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. She has contributed about 40 original publications about the reproduction and development of the marsupial frogs and other frogs from Ecuador. She was Vice President for Ecuador of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands from 1992-1996. The World Wildlife Fund awarded her a Diploma, and the Charles Darwin Foundation awarded her a Medal in recognition of her Galapagos conservation work. In 2006, Eugenia del Pino Veintimilla was named a foreign member of both the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She received the Sheth International Distinguished Emory Alumni Award from Emory University. Most recently, she was awarded the "Pluma de la Dignidad" from the National Association of Ecuadorian Journalists.