Carola García Vinuesa, 52, was a respected woman in Australia. This Spanish immunologist was a professor and head of the department of immunology at the Australian National University. She was also director of Center for Personalized Immunology. It was many things that could be summarized in one: his team had been pioneers in the country in sequencing the human genome. He was well off, gave talks on genetic immunology around the world and a few awards were piled up at his home in Canberra, where he lived with his two daughters.