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List of the most influential female people in Biology,

#1351

Guadalupe Sabio

Guadalupe Sabio

#96504

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Guadalupe Sabio Buzo is a Spanish scientist and Professor at the Spanish National Cardiovascular Research Centre, which is part of the Carlos III Health Institute. Her research considers stress-activated kinases and the development of diseases associated with obesity. She was awarded the Princess of Girona Foundation Scientist Prize in 2012 and selected as one of the Top 100 Women Leaders in Spain in 2017.

#1352

Miriam Salpeter

Miriam Salpeter

#97599

Overall Influence

1929 - 2000 (71 years)

Miriam Salpeter was an American academic. As professor of neurobiology at Cornell University, she developed quantitative electron microscopic autoradiography as a means to investigate the neuromuscular junction. The Society for Neuroscience created the Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award in her honour.

#1353

Matilde Leonardi

#95131

Overall Influence

Matilde Leonardi is an Italian neurologist and paediatrician. At present she is Director of Neurology in the Public Health, Disability Unit and Coma Research Centre at the Carlo Besta Neurological Institute in Milan.She is a FEAN, and a WHO expert and consultant on neurology, disability, ageing and policy development who is co-chair of the WHO NeuroCOVID Forum group on essential neurological services for COVID-19 recoverers. Leonardi is also a World Federation of Neurorehabilitation Presidium Member.

#1354

Story Landis

#87192

Overall Influence

Story Landis is an American neurobiologist and former director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health. She was director of the institute between September 1, 2003 and October 2014. Dr. Landis worked at NINDS since 1995, and was named Chair of the NIH Stem Cell Task Force in 2007.

#1355

Cecilia Bouzat

#60350

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Cecilia Bouzat is an Argentine biochemist, who studies neurological disorders. In 2014 she was honored as the Latin American Laureate by the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.

#1356

Florence Comite

Florence Comite

#69170

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Florence Comite is an American endocrinologist who has helped develop new therapies for osteoporosis, endometriosis, fibroid disease, and infertility. She was awarded a patent for developing a new method of determining fertility in women In 1990, Comite was awarded a second patent for the use of Clomifene to increase bone mass in premenopausal women. Alongside her work in precision medicine and integrated medical analysis, she is also known for founding Women's Health at Yale in 1992. Comite is known for her work in clinical hormone research, and as the founder of Women's Health at Yale in t...

#1357

Rosette Batarda Fernandes

#86144

Overall Influence

1916 - 2005 (89 years)

Rosette Mercedes Saraiva Batarda was a Portuguese botanist and taxonomist who was married to Abílio Fernandes , another Portuguese botanist and taxonomist. Career She enrolled at the Escola Secundária Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho in 1928 and graduated in 1941 in Biological Sciences from the University of Lisbon. In June of the same year, attending a Congress of Natural Sciences in Lisbon, she met Abilio Fernandes, who was soon to be her husband. They settled in Coimbra, after Abilio moved there in August 1941 to take up the position of Museum Director at the University of Coimbra. In November...

#1358

Suzanne Marie Garland

#119506

Overall Influence

#1359

Martha Constantine-Paton

#98967

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Martha Constantine-Paton is a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and a professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

#1360

Elizabeth Anne Kellogg

#116332

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Elizabeth Anne Kellogg is an American botanist who now works mainly on grasses and cereals, both wild and cultivated. She earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1983, and was professor of Botanical Studies at the University of Missouri - St. Louis from September 1998 to December 2013. Since 2013 she has been part of the Kellogg Lab at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in Missouri, where she is principal investigator In 2020 she was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

#1361

Victoria Sork

#114512

Overall Influence

Victoria Louise Sork is an American scientist who is Professor and Dean of Life Sciences at University of California, Los Angeles. She studies tree populations in California and the Eastern United States using genomics, evolutionary biology and conservation biology. Sork is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#1362

Lorraine J. Gudas

#119679

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

#1363

Mary Bownes

#114428

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Mary Bownes OBE FRSE FRES FRSB is an English molecular and developmental biologist; she is Vice Principal Community Engagement and Emerita Professor of Developmental Biology at the University of Edinburgh. She has taught genetics, molecular biology and developmental biology at all levels and was previously Head of the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology at the University from 1998 to 2001.

#1364

Anna Epps

#75924

Overall Influence

1930 - 2017 (87 years)

Anna Cherrie Epps was an American microbiologist known for her immunology research as well as her efforts to promote the advancement of minorities within the sciences, specifically medicine. Early life and education In 1930, Epps was born in New Orleans to Ernest Cherrie Sr., a physician, and Anna Cherrie, a former schoolteacher. She attended Corpus Christi Elementary School and Xavier University Preparatory High School, both Catholic schools in New Orleans. Epps started studying at Howard University when she was 16. In 1951, at age 19, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology.

#1365

Joyce Taylor-Papadimitriou

#95623

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Joyce Taylor-Papadimitriou FMedSci is a British molecular biologist and geneticist. She is Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor at King's College London specialising in the area of cellular, genetic and proteomic studies on patient breast tumour samples, and works within the Breast Cancer Biology Group. She was the first to identify that the action of interferon type 1 requires the synthesis of effector proteins.

#1366

Inger Nordal

#101402

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Inger Nordal is a Norwegian professor of botany. She was an associate professor at the University of Oslo from 1974, took the fil.dr. degree at Uppsala University in 1977 and became a professor in 1987. In 1990 she was admitted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. A few of her early papers were published under her then married name "Inger Nordal Bjørnstad".

#1367

Kate Seers

#119856

Overall Influence

#1368

Martine Roussel

#119867

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Martine F. Roussel is a molecular oncologist in the United States. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Roussel works at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

#1369

Michal Schwartz

#68199

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Michal Schwartz is a professor of neuroimmunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. She is active in the field of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly utilizing the immune system to help the brain fight terminal neurodegenerative brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

#1370

Lynda Delph

#94051

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Lynda Ferrell Delph is a Distinguished Professor of Biology and member of the Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Program at Indiana University - Bloomington. Delph began her education at the University of Arizona, where she completed her undergraduate education in 1979 and masters in 1983. In 1988, she completed her Ph.D., on gender dimorphism in New Zealand Scrophulariaceae, from the University of Canterbury, which was followed by a post doctoral fellowship at Rutgers University.

#1371

Hilary Finucane

#69244

Overall Influence

Hilary Kiyo Finucane is an American computational biologist who is Co-Director of the Program in Medical and Population Genetics at the Broad Institute. Her group combines genetic data with molecular data to understand the origins and mechanisms of disease.

#1372

Sharon Tooze

#111804

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Sharon Tooze, FMedSci is an American cell biologist who has made significant contributions to the Autophagy field. She is a senior scientist at the Francis Crick Institute and was awarded European Molecular Biology Organization membership in 2010.

#1373

Kim Orth

#90224

Overall Influence

Kim Orth is a microbiologist and biochemist. She is the Earl A. Forsythe chair in biomedical science and professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at UT Southwestern. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on bacterial pathogenesis.

#1374

Elizabeth M. McNally

#63529

Overall Influence

Elizabeth M. McNally is an American human geneticist and cardiologist. She is the Elizabeth J. Ward Chair and director of the Center for Genetic Medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

#1375

Amy Dickman

#98217

Overall Influence

Amelia Jane Dickman is Professor of Wildlife Conservation and Director of WildCRU at the University of Oxford, Kaplan Senior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford and joint CEO of Lion Landscapes. She is best known for her leadership of the Ruaha Carnivore Project, seeking to improve conservation outcomes for lions and other carnivores in the Ruaha National Park of Tanzania. She is known for her views on the importance of scientific and local community input into discussions around the continued importance of trophy hunting for the conservation of African landscapes.

#1376

Sarah K. England

#27284

Overall Influence

Sarah K. England is a physiologist and biophysicist and the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Washington University School of Medicine. England conducts research on cation channels in uterine smooth muscle to understand the biological correlates of preterm birth and is the Associate Program Director of the Prematurity Research Center at Washington University as well as the Vice Chair of Research for the Center for Reproductive Health Sciences. In 2005, England was selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow in the Office of Senator Hill...

#1377

Margaret Werner-Washburne

Margaret Werner-Washburne

#73047

Overall Influence

Margaret Werner-Washburne is a molecular biologist and Regents' Professor Emeritus of Biology. at the University of New Mexico. She was previously the president of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science , which holds the largest broadly multidisciplinary and multicultural STEM diversity conference in the U.S. A pioneer in the genomics of the stationary phase of yeast, she is known for her innovative programs to attract and retain underrepresented minorities in STEM. Werner-Washburne has made great strides in the field of Genetics. She has done g...

#1378

Eloise E. Clark

#106571

Overall Influence

1931 - 2017 (86 years)

Eloise Elizabeth "Betsy" Clark was an American biologist, best known for her long service as Assistant Director for Biological, Behavioral, and Social Sciences at the U.S. National Science Foundation.

#1379

Muzlifah Haniffa

#88425

Overall Influence

Muzlifah Haniffa is a Malaysian dermatologist and immunologist who focuses on the development of the immune system and the use of single-cell techniques to understand biology. Haniffa is a professor and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University.

#1380

Constance Scharff

#113326

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Constance Scharff is a German zoologist and neuroethologist and Professor at the Free University of Berlin. She is particularly notable for her research on birdsong, neurogenesis and regeneration. Early life and education Scharff went to school in Lübeck, Germany and moved to Marburg, Germany, to study biology in 1979. She went on to study experimental neurobiology and neuroethology at Adelphi university in New York with Carol Diakow. From 1984, she worked with Fernando Nottebohm at Rockefeller University where she earned her degree of Ph.D. Studying bird song, the researchers were involved in a series of studies that showed the generation of new neurons in the adult brain.

#1381

Sheila Dorothy King

#46674

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Sheila Dorothy King, CD was a Barbadian-born, Jamaican academic and physician. She was the second woman to be appointed as full professor at the University of the West Indies . She was the first woman appointed as a professor in the Faculty of Medicine in 1983, ten years after she was appointed as head of UWI's Microbiology Department. A specialist in infectious disease and viral epidemiology, she advised numerous national, regional and international departments and governmental agencies on such diseases as dengue, influenza, and typhoid. In 1998, she was honored as a Commander of the Order o...

#1382

Ekanem Ikpi Braide

#81208

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Ekanem Ikpi Braide is a Nigerian Parasitologist. She was a Vice-Chancellor of Cross River University of Technology , Calabar, and pioneer Vice-Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, Lafia. She is credited with a major contribution to the eradication of guinea worm in Nigeria. In 2020, she was made the first female President-elect of the Nigerian Academy of Science. Braide is Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The Leprosy Mission Nigeria. She is the Pro-Chancellor of Arthur Jarvis University, Akpabuyo, Nigeria. She is the first female President of the Nigerian Academy of Science.

#1383

Marisa Bartolomei

#94444

Overall Influence

Marisa Bartolomei is an American cell biologist, the Perelman Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Co-Director of the Epigenetics Institute at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research considers epigenetic processes including genomic imprinting. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

#1384

Laxmi Parida

#36119

Overall Influence

Laxmi Parida is an IBM Master Inventor and group leader in computational genomics at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in New York. Education Parida was educated at New York University where she was awarded a PhD in 1998 for research on algorithms for computational genomics supervised by Bud Mishra.

#1385

Celia White Tabor

#105267

Overall Influence

1918 - 2012 (94 years)

Celia White Tabor was an American biochemist and physician-scientist who was an expert on the biosynthesis of polyamines. She was a researcher at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases from 1952 until her retirement in 2005.

#1386

Brenda Wingfield

#107347

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Brenda D. Wingfield is a South African Professor of genetics and previous Deputy Dean of the University of Pretoria. She is known for her genetic studies of fungal tree pathogens. Biography Brenda D. Fairbairn was born in Zambia and educated in Zimbabwe. In High School, she found that she enjoyed genetics and went on to study at the University of Natal. She graduated with B.Sc.Hons Med from the University of Cape Town, Master's degree from the University of Minnesota and PhD from the University of Stellenbosch . In the late 1990s, she began to work at the University of Pretoria. She was one of...

#1387

Marvalee Wake

#84830

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Marvalee Hendricks Wake is an American zoologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for her research in the biology of caecilians and vertebrate development and evolution. A 1988 Guggenheim Fellow, she has served as president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, International Union of Biological Sciences, and the International Society of Vertebrate Morphology. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Cal...

#1388

Carolyn J. Brown

#113616

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Carolyn J. Brown is a Canadian geneticist and Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia. Brown is known for her studies on X-chromosome inactivation, having discovered the human XIST gene in 1990.

#1389

Sarah Coupland

#80265

Overall Influence

Sarah Coupland is an Australian-born pathologist and professor who is the George Holt Chair in Pathology at the University of Liverpool. Coupland is an active clinical scientist whose research focuses on the molecular genetics of cancers, with particular interests in uveal melanoma, conjunctival melanoma, intraocular and ocular adnexal lymphomas and CNS lymphoma. Coupland is also an NHS Honorary Consultant Histopathologist at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Since 2006, Coupland has been head of the Liverpool Ocular Oncology Research Group; from which she runs a multidisciplinary on...

#1390

Helen Saibil

#93539

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Helen Ruth Saibil FRS FMedSci is a Canadian-British molecular biologist and Professor of Structural Biology at the Department of Crystallography of Birkbeck, University of London. Her research is largely focuses on molecular chaperones and protein misfolding.

#1391

Caroline Harwood

#111618

Overall Influence

Caroline S. Harwood is an American microbiologist who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2009. She is the Professor Gerald and Lyn Grinstein Professor of Microbiology and Associate Vice-Provost for Research at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

#1392

Denise Manahan-Vaughan

#118353

Overall Influence

Denise Manahan-Vaughan is an Irish neuroscientist and neurophysiologist. She is head of the Department of Neurophysiology, dean of studies and director of the International Graduate School of Neuroscience and co-founder of the Research Department of Neuroscience of the Ruhr University Bochum. Her research focuses on elucidation of the cellular and synaptic mechanisms underlying the acquisition and long-term maintenance of associative memories. She uses a multidisciplinary approach to study how spatial experiences, sensory input, neuromodulation, or brain disease impacts on, and provide insig...

#1393

Sónia Rocha

#70914

Overall Influence

Sónia Maria Campos Soares da Rocha, usually referred to as Professor Sónia Rocha, is a Portuguese cell biologist who holds a personal chair in biochemistry at the University of Liverpool, where she is the head of the Department of Biochemistry. Rocha runs an active multidisciplinary cell signaling research group studying hypoxia, and focused around transcription factors such as Hypoxia-inducible factors and NF-κB. Her laboratory is currently based in the Institute of Integrative Biology.

#1394

Carmela Abraham

#25622

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Carmela R. Abraham is an American neuroscientist who focuses on the study of Alzheimer’s disease. Early life and education Abraham earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Tel Aviv University and her PhD in Neuroscience from Harvard University. In 1990, Abraham was the recipient of The Neuroscience Education and Research Foundation Award for an Outstanding Promise as a Young Alzheimer Investigator. She was also the first Rappaport Scholar at the Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the recipient of the Zenith and Temple awards from the Alzheimer’s As...

#1395

Anne M. Andrews

#73628

Overall Influence

Anne M. Andrews is an American academic, the Richard Metzner Endowed Chair in Clinical Neuropharmacology, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. Andrews is known for her work on the study of the serotonin system with a special focus on how the serotonin transporter modulates complex behaviors including anxiety, mood, stress responsiveness, and learning and memory.

#1396

Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz

#108915

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz is a Polish-British developmental biologist. She is Professor of Mammalian Development and Stem Cell Biology in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. She also serves as Bren Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at California Institute of Technology .

#1397

Bernice Shanet

#100264

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

Bernice Grafstein Shanet is a Canadian neurophysiologist, a professor at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York and a noted specialist in neuroregeneration research. Shanet is a Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medical College, the holder of the Vincent and Brooke Astor Distinguished Professorship in Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College, the Professor of Neuroscience for the Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College and the first woman ever to serve as president of the American Society for Neuroscience. Shanet is famous for her stud...

#1398

Kathy Hudson

#63001

Overall Influence

Kathy Lynn Hudson is an American microbiologist specializing in science policy. She was the deputy director for science, outreach, and policy at the National Institutes of Health from October 2010 to January 2017. Hudson assisted in the creation and launch of All of Us, the BRAIN initiative, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. She founded the Genetics and Public Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University in 2002. Hudson is an advocate for women in science.

#1399

Lee Ehrman

#117542

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Lee Ehrman is an American geneticist and a Distinguished Professor of Biology at State University of New York at Purchase known for her research on Drosophila fruit flies. Early life and education Ehrman earned a Bachelor of Science from Queens College of CUNY in 1956. Ehrman earned her M.S. in 1957 and received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1959, where she studied under Theodosius Dobzhansky. She joined the faculty at Purchase as a founding faculty member in 1970. In 1976, she received Purchase's Chancellor‘s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and she was named a Distinguished Profess...

#1400

Zita Martins

#59063

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Zita Carla Torrão Pinto Martins , OSE, is a Portuguese astrobiologist, and an associate professor at Instituto Superior Técnico. She was a Royal Society University Research Fellow at Imperial College London. Her research explores how life may have begun on Earth by looking for organic compounds in meteorite samples.

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