cakestot.pages.dev

Clara lim-sylianco contribution

    •

Clara Lim-Sylianco

Filipino chemist (1925–2013)

Clara Y. Lim-Sylianco (18 August 1925 – 23 July 2013[1]) was a Filipino chemist who was granted the title of National Scientist of the Philippines in 1994. Lim-Sylianco's research focused on mutagens, antimutagens, and bio-organic mechanisms. She has published articles, books, and monographs in organic chemistry, biochemistry, genetic toxicology, and molecular nutrition. Also an educator, Lim-Sylianco has written books that are used as reference texts in college chemistry courses in the Philippines.

Education

Lim-Sylianco received an associate degree for the pre-medicine program at Silliman University in 1947. However, she switched out of the Medicine track shortly after to pursue a bachelor's degree in chemistry, where she graduated as magna cum laude in 1949.[1] Lim-Sylianco then pursued a master's in Chemistry at University of the Philippines in 1949. There, she worked as a research assistant until 1951 and later took on an instructor role until she graduated in 1953.[1] After rec

    •

Born on November 29, 1893, Orosa’s formative years were shaped by the ferment of the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine-American War. Her father, Simplicio Orosa y Agoncillio, was part of the resistance movement led by General Aguinaldo against Spain and then the United States. As a steamship captain, he was tasked with clandestinely transporting Filipino soldiers and supplies. 

Eventually, when Orosa was about 9 or 10, her father retired from his life at sea and with her mother, Juliana y de Castro, opened a store. Soon after, they fled their home Taal, Batangas to escape the cruelty of American occupying forces. But in seeking safety, the family aroused suspicion and Simplicio was taken as a political prisoner. These experiences appear to have left their mark on Orosa, endowing her with a deep sense of patriotic duty.

Her scientific education informed her food advocacy work. After a year at the  University of the Philippines, Orosa transferred to the University of Washington in Seattle in 1916, where she completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in pharmace

    •

Julian Banzon is known for his cleverness and creativity. This Filipino scientist declared that coconut could be a renewable resource of chemicals and fuel. He makes use of local equipments in approximately all his researches. His workings…

Luz Oliveros-Belardo was born on November 3, 1906. Luz Belardo uses up five decades of her life researching on the chemistry of natural products and essential oils from Philippine plants. She has haul out new…

Francisco Quisumbing is a Filipino chemist who finished studies from the University of Chicago as American-sponsored pension ado. Following WWII, he tried to systematize the Philippine Ink Corporation under the Japanese Reparations Program, but was…

Dr. Clara Lim-Sylianco was known on her works on mutagens, anti mutagens, and bioorganic mechanisms. She also authored schoolbooks that are still makes use in schools nowadays. She received the Gregorio Y. Zara award in…

Dr. Lourdes Cruz researches led in part to the biochemical classification of more than 50 biologically dynamic peptides

Copyright ©cakestot.pages.dev 2025