 She never married but had three siblings, Ana Gloria (1910–1996) (wife of Francisco Diaz-Silveira Lopez), Domingo Alberto (1913–2002), and Alberto (1919–1984).She graduated from University of Havana in 1939, obtaining a Doctorate degree in Pharmacy, and became the Director of the pharmacy department of the anti-tuberculosis Children's Hospital in Havana.In 1949, she won a scholarship to further studies specialized in Bacteriology with Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered Penicillin, becoming the first Cuban woman to obtain this scholarship.