OPENWATER

Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen is the founder and CEO of Openwater. Openwater is creating a device that will enable us to see inside our brains or bodies in great detail. With this comes the promise of new abilities to diagnose and treat disease. It will provide constant monitoring. The implications are broad for detection and treatment of cancer, cardiovascular […]

BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

Barbara McClintock was born to a family with little money, and grew up in Connecticut and New York. Her interest in science and research was viewed with great skepticism and disapproval, since her family believed that it was more important for her to get married. Despite this, with her father’s support, McClintock began studying at […]

KATIE HUNT

Katie Hunt is a paleo-oncologist/aracheologist. She, as well as Janet Iwasa, was featured in “Meet 12 Badass Scientists… Who Also Happen to be Women.” At age 22, Hunt was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, which caused her to have a deeper curiosity about cancer as an ancient disease. Hunt then proceeded to read ancient texts and […]

JANET IWASA

Janet Iwasa, a molecular animator, was one of the many women featured in the article “Meet 12 Badass Scientists… Who Also Happen to be Women.” Iwasa created a colorful, interactive, 3-dimentional animation that illustrates a molecule’s actions. This animation has allowed scientists to visualize their hypotheses and convey complex scientific discoveries to all people. In […]

MARIE MAYNARD DALY

Marie Maynard Daly, a biochemist, was the first African American woman in the United States to earn a PhD in Chemistry, awarded by Columbia University in 1947. Daly made numerous contributions to the world’s current understanding of the metabolism and composition of the cell nucleus. She also developed programs to increase the number of minorities […]

SEED

Vanessa Kerry is the CEO and co-founder of Seed Global Health. Seed sends U.S. doctors and nurses to train health-care workers in places that lack medical care and attention. Kerry’s biggest challenge and goal is to close the gap between the two standards of care in the world. “After a Seed volunteer taught Tanzanian student […]

ROSALIND FRANKLIN

Rosalind Elise Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer who made contributions to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. She is best known for her role in the discovery of the structure of DNA, and for her pioneering use of X-ray diffraction. Franklin used X-ray diffraction techniques […]

RIP VERA RUBIN

Recently, the world has lost many creative and innovative people–one of whom is astronomer Vera Rubin. Vera Rubin passed away at the age of 88 on December 25, 2016. Rubin was a pioneer in the field of astronomy, and was one of the few women during her time to uncover some of the greatest evidence […]

NURITAS

Nora Khaldi is a mathematician with a PhD in Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics. Her research has focused mainly on protein evolution and comparative genomics. Khaldi’s ambitions throughout her career have been to introduce new ways of thinking, big data, and algorithms. Before Nuritas, Khaldi was the first scientist to show gene transfer between multi-cellular species. Khaldi […]

KATHY NIAKAN

Kathy Niakan was named one of Time magazine’s Pioneers for the 100 Most Influential People of 2016. She has begun to apply the technique for editing the genome that Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have developed, also known as CRISPR. Niakan does this to study the effects of genes in human development. Her experiments will […]