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Roe Jung-hye
1957 - Present (67 years)
Roe Jung-hye is a South Korean professor of Molecular biology at Seoul National University served as the 6th President of National Research Foundation of Korea - the first woman to lead the Foundation or its preceding foundations from 2018 to 2021.
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Lynne R. Parenti
1954 - Present (70 years)
Lynne R. Parenti is an American ichthyologist. She serves as a Research Scientist and Curator of Fishes at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. Her specialty is the systematics and historical biogeography of freshwater and coastal fishes, and she has conducted research in this area for about thirty years.
Go to ProfileElizabeth Sally Ward is a British physician who is Director of Translational Immunology at the Centre for Cancer Immunology in the University of Southampton. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2022.
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Zoi Lygerou
1953 - Present (71 years)
Zoi Lygerou is a Greek molecular biologist and associate professor at Patras Medical School. Lygerou's works have been published in such journals as the European Journal of Biochemistry, Journal of Cell Science, the Molecular and Cellular Biology journal, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and both Science and Nature journals among others. She is especially known for her work on cell cycle control mechanisms in eukaryotic organisms, and has done research at the University of Patras since 1999. Lygerou has also held positions at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and at the Imperial Cance...
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Roshan Cools
1975 - Present (49 years)
Roshan Cools is a Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry at Radboud University Nijmegen. She is interested in the motivational and cognitive control of human behaviour and how it is impacted by neuromodulation. She was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.
Go to ProfileFrances Mary Platt is a British biochemist and pharmacologist who is a professor at the University of Oxford. Her research investigates rare genetic disorders known as lysosomal storage diseases, progressive conditions that lead to neurodegeneration. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2021.
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Marty Crump
1946 - Present (78 years)
Martha L. "Marty" Crump is a behavioral ecologist in the Department of Biology and the Ecology Center at Utah State University who studies amphibians and reptiles. Crump was the first individual to perform a long-term ecological study on a community of tropical amphibians, and did pioneering work in the classification of variability in amphibian egg size as a function of habitat predictability. She has co-authoried one of the most popular modern herpetology textbooks, Herpetology as well as the memoir In Search of the Golden Frog and a number of other books for both adults and children. In ...
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Lubna Tahtamouni
1976 - Present (48 years)
Lubna Hamid Tawfiq Tahtamouni is a Jordanian biologist known for her work in developmental biology and cancer research. She is the head of the Department of Biology and Biotechnology at Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan. She has won multiple awards for her work on breast cancer, and is known as an advocate for allowing young women in the Arab world to choose a career in science. In 2016, she was named one of BBC's 100 Women.
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Léia Scheinvar
1954 - Present (70 years)
Léia Akcelrad Lerner de Scheinvar is a Brazilian-Mexican botanist. She has dedicated her work to studying and protecting Mexico's cacti. Early life and education Scheinvar was born in Brazil on 30 September 1954.
Go to ProfileAlison G. Power is an American biologist. She is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Her research investigates disease ecology in plant communities, both natural and agricultural, across the U.S., Central America, Southeast Asia, and Africa.
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Maevia Noemí Correa
1914 - 2005 (91 years)
Maevia Noemí Correa was an Argentine botanist, researcher, botanical curator, and professor. She studied at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Museum Studies at the National University of La Plata, and in 1953 completed a doctorate in natural sciences at the same university, with a dissertation titled, "Las Orquídeas Argentinas de la Tribu Polychondreae Schltr., subtribu Spiranthinae Pfitzer", under the direction of Dr. Ángel Lulio Cabrera. Between 1956 and 1957, the American Association of University Women sponsored her study at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1956 to 1958, she...
Go to ProfileAlice Cheung is an American biochemist who is a professor of molecular biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research considers the molecular and cellular biology of polarization. She was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2020.
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Gertrude Falk
1925 - 2008 (83 years)
Gertrude Falk was an American physiologist, who was Professor of Physiology at University College London, and the first woman to work in her field at UCL Medical School. Born to immigrant parents in the United States, she was the first in her family to enroll at University, earning Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Falk worked at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, University of Washington and UCL Medical School. She and neuroscientist Paul Fatt researched cellular biophysics to find how the retina converts light into electrical signals, and later worked along...
Go to ProfileRoberta Lee Farrell is emeritus professor at the University of Waikato, New Zealand and a researcher of international renown in the fields of wood degradation, bioremediation, mycology and enzymology.
Go to ProfileNora J. Besansky is an American molecular biologist. She is the Martin J. Gillen Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. In 2020, Besansky was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences for being an expert in the genomics of malaria vectors.
Go to ProfileLisa Stowers is an American neuroscientist studying pheromone signaling and response. She is a professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Scripps Research. Early life and education Lisa was born Lisa Tanguay in Petaluma, California.
Go to ProfileSusan Kaech is an American immunologist. Kaech is a professor and director of the NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences. She holds the NOMIS Foundation Chair. Her research focuses on the formation of memory T cells, T cell metabolism, and cancer immunotherapy.
Go to ProfileCarol Jeanne Thiele is an American microbiologist and cancer researcher specialized in the development of novel therapeutic strategies for pediatric tumors. She is chief of the cell and molecular biology section at the National Cancer Institute. She is a founding editor of the journal Cell Death & Differentiation.
Go to ProfileChristine Nicol is an author, academic and a researcher. She is a Professor of Animal Welfare at the Royal Veterinary College and has honorary appointments at the University of Oxford and the University of Lincoln. She is the Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Animal Science.
Go to ProfileAdriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe is an American evolutionary biologist and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. She specializes in research questions at the intersection of sensory physiology, color vision, coloration, animal behavior, molecular evolution, and genomics.
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Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
1970 - Present (54 years)
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh is a scientist in comparative genomics, specializing in mammalian genetics. She is the Scientific Director of vertebrate genomics at the Broad Institute and a professor in comparative genomics at Uppsala University. In 2010 she co-founded Science for Life Laboratory together with Mathias Uhlén and acted as Co-Director until 2015. As the leader of the Broad Institute's Mammalian Genome Initiative she has led the effort to sequence and analyze the genomes of various mammals, including mouse, dog, chimpanzee, horse, rabbit and opossum. She has researched extensively on the g...
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Beverly Law
1950 - Present (74 years)
Beverly Law is an American forest scientist. She is professor emeritus at Oregon State University known for her research on forest ecosystems, especially with respect to carbon cycling, fire, and how human actions impact future climate.
Go to ProfileShruti Naik is an Indian American scientist who is an associate professor of biological sciences at the NYU Langone Medical Center. In 2020 Naik was named a Packard Fellow for her research into the molecular mechanisms that underpin the function of tissue stem cells. She was awarded the 2018 regional Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists and the International Takeda Innovator in Regeneration Award. She has also received the NIH Directors Innovator Award and been named a Pew Stewart Scholar in 2020.
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Sandra Rees
1942 - Present (82 years)
Professor Sandra Rees is an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne. Her major research interests have been directed towards understanding the pathogenesis of brain injury resulting from fetal hypoxia, infection, alcohol exposure, growth restriction and prematurity.
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Jacqueline M. Grebmeier
1955 - Present (69 years)
Jacqueline M. Grebmeier is an American ecologist who specializes in polar biological oceanography. Early life and education Grebmeier completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of California, Davis in 1977 before enrolling at Stanford University for her first Master's degree in Biology. Following this, she earned her second master's degree in Marine Affairs from the University of Washington in 1983, specializing in applications of Arctic science to Arctic resource utilization policy, and her PhD in Biological Oceanography from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in ...
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Elaine Fox
2000 - Present (24 years)
Elaine Fox is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Oxford Centre for Emotions and Affective Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. Her research considers the science of emotion and what makes some people more resilient than others. As of 2019 Fox serves as the Mental Health Networks Impact and Engagement Coordinator for United Kingdom Research and Innovation.
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Gillian Wu
1943 - Present (81 years)
Gillian Elizabeth Wu is a Canadian Immunologist and the former Dean of Pure and Applied Science at York University. She is currently Professor Emerita in York University's Faculty of Science and Faculty of Health and also at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.
Go to ProfileLeslie Joan Berg is an American immunologist. As a professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School, she was elected the 95th president of the American Association of Immunologists for a one-year term from 2011 to 2012. Berg’s research focuses on understanding the signal transduction pathways—the succession of reactions inside the cell as it changes one kind of stimulus, or signal, into another—important for T-cell development and activation, and the generation of protective immunity to infections.
Go to ProfileJean Sylvia Marshall, born in Birmingham, England, is a Canadian immunologist and acting Professor and Head of the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Marshall's work has investigated how mast cells are involved in the early immune response to infection and antigen. She is best known for her discovery of the previously unknown degranulation-independent immunoregulatory roles of mast cells in infection and allergy and their ability to mobilize dendritic cells.
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Constance E. Brinckerhoff
Constance E. Brinckerhoff is an American microbiologist and an emeritus professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine. Life Brinckerhoff was born to social worker Elizabeth E. Zimmerman and physician Maurice K. Laurence.
Go to ProfileErica McAlister Hon.FRES is an entomologist, museum curator and presenter in the United Kingdom. She is an expert in flies and is senior curator at the Natural History Museum, London. She is a past President of the Amateur Entomologists' Society.
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Maria de Sousa
1939 - 2020 (81 years)
Maria Ângela Brito de Sousa was a Portuguese immunologist, science leader poet and writer. She gained international recognition as a medical researcher, as the author of several seminal scientific papers: she was the first to describe thymus-dependent areas in 1966, a fundamental discovery in the mapping of peripheral lymphoid organs; she coined the term "ecotaxis" in 1971, to describe the phenomenon of cells of different origins to migrate and to organize among themselves in very specific lymphoid areas. In the 1980s she focused on the study of hereditary hemochromatosis, an iron overload ...
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Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell
1965 - Present (59 years)
Caitlin Elizabeth O'Connell-Rodwell is an American conservation biologist and author. She is an instructor at Harvard Medical School, scientific consultant, co-founder and CEO of Utopia Scientific, and an expert on elephants. Her elephant research was the subject of the Elephant King, an award-winning Smithsonian Channel documentary.
Go to ProfileJennifer R. Mandel is an American biologist. Mandel is an associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Memphis. Education Jennifer Rhea Ellis earned a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Carson–Newman University with a focus in organismal biology, ecology, and natural history. She completed a Doctor of Philosophy in biological sciences from Vanderbilt University specializing in plant conservation and evolutionary genetics. Her dissertation, Conservation Genetics of the Endangered Sunflower Helianthus verticillatus elevated the Whorled sunflower to a high priority candidate for endangered species status.
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Margaret Baird
1945 - 2016 (71 years)
Margaret Alison Baird was a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Otago. Her research considered dendritic cells and their role in cancer and infectious disease.
Go to ProfilePhilippa Saunders, FRSE is Chair of Reproductive Steroids and Director of Postgraduate Research for the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, and Registrar of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Her research explores the mechanisms behind how sex steroids impact on repair, regeneration and cell replication throughout the body.
Go to ProfileMaria Iandolo New is a professor of Pediatrics, Genomics and Genetics at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She is an expert in congenital adrenal hyperplasia , a genetic condition affecting the adrenal gland that can affect sexual development.
Go to ProfileMartha Rebecca Jane Clokie is a Professor of Microbiology at the University of Leicester. Her research investigates the identification and development of bacteriophages that kill pathogens in an effort to develop new antimicrobials.
Go to ProfileLaura Attardi is the Catharine and Howard Avery Professor of the school of medicine, and professor of radiation oncology and genetics at Stanford University where she leads the Attardi Laboratory. Attardi studies the tumor suppressor protein p53 and the gene that encodes it, TP53, to better understand mechanisms for preventing cancer.
Go to ProfileRuma Banerjee is a professor of enzymology and biological chemistry at the University of Michigan Medical School. She is an experimentalist whose research has focused on unusual cofactors in enzymology.
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Lindy W. Cayzer
1952 - Present (72 years)
Lindy Webster Cayzer CF is an Australian botanist. Early life and education Cayzer was born on 25 April 1952, daughter of Robert and Rita Webster. She graduated from the Australian National University with a PhD in 1997.
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