While studying at the University of Panama Law School, she was offered a scholarship to study biology in the United States. She attended
Coe College,
University of Iowa, De Paul University, and did doctoral research in neurophysiology at the
University of Chicago. Her first published paper was in 1949 on Inhibition of Brain Dehydrogenases by Acetylcholinesterases. She met her future husband
Thomas F. Goreau while studying in the US. ==See also==