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 […]

CODE TO (INSPIRE)

“WE ARE GOING TO EMPOWER GIRLS ONLINE WITHOUT BEING WORRIED OF PHYSICAL & GEOGRAPHICAL DISTANCES.” In 2015, Fereshteh Forough, a former professor of computer science at Herat University, created an all-female coding school in Afghanistan. Code to Inspire is a nonprofit organization committed to teaching female students in Afghanistan how to code. It aims to […]

SABRINA GONZALEZ PASTERSKI

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, a physicist and Harvard Ph.D. candidate, has been awarded one of Marie Claire’s first-ever Young Women’s Honors. She has been named-checked by Stephen Hawking, called “the next Einstein” by her Harvard mentors, and currently has a job offer from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. As a young girl, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski wanted to design […]

JENNIFER DOUDNA

Jennifer Doudna was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2015. She is a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-inventor of CRISPR. She, along with Emmanuelle Charpentier, developed CRISPR to study the effects of genes in human development. Doudna wrote that the “real excitement–and power–in genetics […]