Beth Young Karlan is an American gynecologic oncologist. In 2008, she was named editor-in-chief of the medical journals Gynecologic Oncology and Gynecologic Oncology Reports. In 2012, Karlan was appointed by the White House to serve on the National Cancer Advisory Board, and in 2015, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
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Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig
1928 - 2018 (90 years)
Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig was an Austrian-Brazilian immunologist specializing in the development of malaria vaccines. In a career spanning over 60 years, she was primarily affiliated with New York University . She served as C.V. Starr Professor of Medical and Molecular Parasitology at Langone Medical Center, Research Professor at the NYU Department of Pathology, and finally Professor Emerita of Microbiology and Pathology at the NYU Department of Microbiology.
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Francoise Baylis
1961 - Present (63 years)
Françoise Elvina Baylis FISC is a Canadian bioethicist whose work is at the intersection of applied ethics, health policy, and practice. The focus of her research is on issues of women's health and assisted reproductive technologies, but her research and publication record also extend to such topics as research involving humans , gene editing, novel genetic technologies, public health, the role of bioethics consultants, and neuroethics. Baylis' interest in the impact of bioethics on health and public policy as well as her commitment to citizen engagement]and participatory democracy sees her ...
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Fiona Wood
1958 - Present (66 years)
Fiona Melanie Wood is an Australian plastic surgeon and burns specialist working in Perth, Western Australia. She is the director of the Royal Perth Hospital burns unit and the Western Australia Burns Service, and developed spray-on skin in collaboration with Marie Stoner. In addition, Wood is also a clinical professor with the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia and director of the Fiona Wood Foundation .
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Danuta Gierulanka
1909 - 1995 (86 years)
Danuta Gierulanka was a Polish mathematics educator, psychologist, philosopher, and translator. She was associated with Roman Ingarden and known for her work in phenomenology and the philosophy of mathematics.
Go to ProfileJulie Parsonnet is an infectious disease expert. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine and American Society for Clinical Investigation. Early life and education Parsonnet grew up in Millburn, New Jersey alongside father Victor Parsonnet and attended Millburn High School. Following high school, she graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in history and science. As a sophomore at Harvard, she spent a summer as an intern with Senator Clifford P. Case.
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Annette Lemieux
1957 - Present (67 years)
Annette Lemieux is an American artist who emerged in the early 1980s along with the "picture theory" artists . Lemieux brought to the studio a discipline equally based on introspection, and the manifestations of an ideological minimalism. Process is a key component in the execution of her works over the past three decades, creating the lure to the confrontation of issues of social and historical urgency. Lemieux has been the recipient of awards from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Keiser Wilhelm Museum, Germany and an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Monserrat College of Art....
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Eva-Maria Mandelkow
2000 - Present (24 years)
Eva-Maria Mandelkow is a German neuroscientist and Alzheimer's disease researcher at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases , Bonn. Biography Eva-Maria Mandelkow studied medicine in Hamburg and Heidelberg, qualifying in 1968. After three years of medical internships, she began doctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, investigating the enzyme kinetics of the motor protein myosin. She graduated in 1973 with a Ph.D. in biochemistry, then undertook postdoctoral training at Brandeis University in Massachusetts researching cytoskeletal proteins. She c...
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Rhea Seddon
1947 - Present (77 years)
Margaret Rhea Seddon is an American surgeon and retired NASA astronaut. After being selected as part of the first group of astronauts to include women in 1978, she flew on three Space Shuttle flights: as a mission specialist on STS-51-D and STS-40, and as a payload commander for STS-58, accumulating over 722 hours in space. On these flights, she built repair tools for a US Navy satellite and performed medical experiments.
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Mitzi Waltz
1962 - Present (62 years)
Mitzi Waltz is a scholar of media and disability studies. As of 2020, she is a research associate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Waltz was formerly an associate lecturer in autism studies at the Autism Centre of Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom. Before her appointment in 2012, she was a lecturer in autism studies at the Autism Centre for Education and Research , University of Birmingham and a senior lecturer at the University of Sunderland.
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Helen A. Berger
1949 - Present (75 years)
Helen Alice Berger is an American sociologist known for her studies of the Pagan community in the United States. Life and career Helen Berger, then an assistant professor at Boston University, first became involved in the study of the Pagan movement in October 1986, when she gave a series of public lectures on the subject of the historical witch trials of New England at the Boston Public Library. She devoted the final lecture to the subject of contemporary Pagan Witches, or Wiccans, who were living in the area, taking her information both from the information published in the works of Margot ...
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Renata Adler
1938 - Present (86 years)
Renata Adler is an American author, journalist, and film critic. Adler was a staff writer-reporter for The New Yorker, and in 1968–69, she served as chief film critic for The New York Times. She is also a writer of fiction.
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Colin Dayan
1949 - Present (75 years)
Colin Dayan, also known as Joan Dayan, is the Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University, where she teaches American studies, comparative literature, and the religious and legal history of the Americas.
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Helena Knyazeva
1959 - Present (65 years)
Helena Nikolaevna Knyazeva is a Russian philosopher of science, complex systems scientist, scholar of synergetics, and translator into Russian of the works of Ilya Prigogine, Edgar Morin, and others. She is a professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
Go to ProfileFiona Hughes is a British Academic. She is a Senior Lecturer in philosophy and Director of Education for Philosophy at the University of Essex. Hughes graduated from the University of Edinburgh and Merton College, Oxford. In January 2017, Hughes was on the expert panel for BBC Radio 4's In Our Time on Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality.
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Natalie Depraz
1964 - Present (60 years)
Natalie Depraz is a French philosopher. She is a specialist in German philosophy, phenomenology, and, more specifically, Edmund Husserl. She is a professor at the University of Rouen Normandy and an academic member of the Husserl Archives at the École normale supérieure . She is the founder of the .
Go to ProfileVictoria J. Fraser is an American physician. Fraser graduated from William Woods College before earning a medical degree from the University of Missouri School of Medicine. After completing her residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, she joined the Washington University in St. Louis faculty in 1991. Fraser was subsequently named J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine, serving until her appointment as Adolphus Busch Professor of Medicine and department chair in 2012.
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Jennie Brand-Miller
1952 - Present (72 years)
Janette Cecile Brand-Miller , also known as Jennie Brand-Miller, Janette Cecile Brand and GI Jennie, is an Australian academic who holds a chair in human nutrition in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney. She is best known for her research and publications on the glycemic index, a term originated by David J. Jenkins of the University of Toronto, and its role in human health.
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Nikola Biller-Andorno
1971 - Present (53 years)
Nikola Biller-Andorno is a German bioethicist. She is Professor and Director of the Institute of Biomedical Ethics of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Biller-Andorno studied medicine at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg as well as philosophy and social sciences at the University of Hagen, Germany . Multiple scholarships and awards allowed her to pursue her research interests at prestigious institutions such as the Hastings Center , Yale University and the Harvard Medical School . After completing her habilitation thesis in ethics and theory of medicine at the University of Göttingen...
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Julia R. Greer
1975 - Present (49 years)
Julia Rosolovsky Greer is a materials scientist and is the Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics and Medical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology . As of 2019, Greer is also the director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech.
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Dorothy B. Porter
1905 - 1995 (90 years)
Dorothy Louise Porter Wesley was a librarian, bibliographer and curator, who built the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University into a world-class research collection. She was the first African American to receive a library science degree from Columbia University. Porter published numerous bibliographies on African American history. When she realized that the Dewey Decimal System had only two classification numbers for African Americans, one for slavery and one for colonization, she created a new classification system that ordered books by genre and author.
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Viola Cordova
1937 - 2002 (65 years)
Viola Cordova , a philosopher, artist, and author, member of the Jicarilla Apache tribe, was one of the first Native American women to earn a PhD in philosophy. Early life Viola Cordova grew up in Taos, New Mexico; her father was a member of the Jicarilla Apache tribe, and her mother was Hispanic. She earned her bachelor's degree from Idaho State University, and her MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of New Mexico.
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Jane Harding
1955 - Present (69 years)
Dame Jane Elizabeth Harding is a New Zealand academic new-born intensive case specialist . She was awarded the Rutherford Medal in 2019. Harding is the incoming president of the New Zealand national academy of sciences, the Royal Society Te Apārangi, with her term beginning in July 2024.
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Dorothy Hewett
1923 - 2002 (79 years)
Dorothy Coade Hewett was an Australian playwright, poet and author, and a romantic feminist icon. In writing and in her life, Hewett was an experimenter. As her circumstances and beliefs changed, she progressed through different literary styles: modernism, socialist realism, expressionism and avant garde. She was a member of the Australian Communist Party in the 1950s and 1960s, which informed her work during that period.
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Pauline Yu
1949 - Present (75 years)
Pauline Yu is an American scholar of Chinese literature and culture noted for her contributions to the study of classical Chinese poetry and comparative literature. She is also known for her research and advocacy on issues in the humanities.
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Ewa Orłowska
1935 - Present (89 years)
Stella Ewa Orłowska is a Polish logician. Her research centers on the concept that everything in logic and set theory can be expressed in terms of relations, and has used this idea to publish works on deduction systemss and model theory for non-classical logic, and logics of non-deterministic and incomplete information. She is a professor at the in Warsaw, and the former president of the Polish Association for Logic and Philosophy of Science.
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Margaret Hedstrom
1953 - Present (71 years)
Margaret L. Hedstrom is an American archivist who is the Robert M. Warner Collegiate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan School of Information. She has contributed to the field of digital preservation, archives, and electronic records management and holds a doctorate in history from the University of Wisconsin.
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Gedong Bagus Oka
1921 - 2002 (81 years)
Gedong Bagus Oka was a Hindu reformer and philosopher in Indonesia. She was one of the foremost authorities on Agama Hindu Dharma and started the Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia movement in the 1980s. She was a recipient of the 1994 Jamnalal Bajaj Award.
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Sandra M. Swain
1950 - Present (74 years)
Sandra M. Swain is an American oncologist, breast cancer specialist and clinical translational researcher. She is currently a professor of Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and the Associate Dean for Research Development at Georgetown University Medical Center and MedStar Health as well as an adjunct professor of Medicine at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine of the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. She is also a past President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology , serving from 2012 through 2013.
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Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume
Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume is a virologist with a primary research focus on herpes simplex virus, fusion and viral entry. She is a retired professor of virology from the University of Bologna, Italy.
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Julie Battilana
1977 - Present (47 years)
Julie Battilana is a scholar, educator, and advisor in the areas of social innovation and social change at Harvard University. She is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Sarah-Jane Leslie
1981 - Present (43 years)
Sarah-Jane Leslie is the Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy and former Dean of the Graduate School at Princeton University, where she is also affiliated faculty in the Department of Psychology, the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy, the Program in Cognitive Science, the Program in Linguistics, and the University Center for Human Values.
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Janet G. Travell
1901 - 1997 (96 years)
Janet Graham Travell was an American physician and medical researcher. Early life and education She was born in 1901 to John Willard and Janet Eliza Travell. Heavily influenced by her father's profession of physician, Travell made the decision to pursue a career in the medical field. In June 1929, in New York City, Janet married John William Gordon Powell, who was an investment counselor. They had two daughters—Janet and Virginia. At the age of 95, Travell died of heart failure at her home in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Yvonne Tasker
1964 - Present (60 years)
Yvonne Tasker is a British author and professor of media and communication in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. Tasker was previously professor of film studies and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University of East Anglia.
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Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz
1945 - Present (79 years)
Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz is a German Catholic philosopher and author. She studies Catholic religious philosophy of the 19th and 20th centuries. Biography Education Gerl-Falkovitz studied philosophy, German Studies, and political science at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg from 1965 to 1971; she earned her doctorate from the University of Munich in 1971. In an interview in 2021, she said of this formative period in her life, "The theology of the 1960s, when I was studying in Munich, was not attractive for me: too much historical criticism, also in methodology, too much existentia...
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Margaret Becklake
1922 - 2018 (96 years)
Margaret Rigsby Becklake, was a Canadian academic and epidemiologist. Margaret focused her career on the study of environmental and occupational determinants of childhood and adult airway disease, specifically the lung health of asbestos miners and millers.
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Steffie Woolhandler
1951 - Present (73 years)
Stephanie Joan "Steffie" Woolhandler is an American primary care physician and medical researcher. An advocate for single-payer health insurance in the United States, she is a co-founder and board member of Physicians for a National Health Program. She is Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Health Policy at the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College and an adjunct clinical professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is also a lecturer in medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she formerly co-directed the general internal medicine internship program.
Go to ProfileAnn M. Mongoven is an American philosophy professor and medical ethicist. She earned her Ph.D. in religious studies/ethics from the University of Virginia in 1996 and a M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2006. Mongoven taught courses at Indiana University/Bloomington before going on to teach at Michigan State University where she currently holds a dual appointment with the philosophy department and the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences. Mongoven is also a Michigan State University Lilly Teaching Fellow and was an ethics consultant ...
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Chang Mei-hwei
1949 - Present (75 years)
Chang Mei-hwei is a Taiwanese pediatric hepatologist. Career Chang graduated from the National Taiwan University College of Medicine, completed fellowship training in pediatric gastroenterology at UCLA Health, and later returned to Taiwan, subsequently serving as a distinguished chair professor within NTU's Department of Pediatrics. Chang has researched hepatitis B vaccination, biliary atresia in infants, and led the Children's Liver Foundation. She was featured in the 2016 documentary Taiwan Revealed: Medical Elite.
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Monica C. Lozano
1956 - Present (68 years)
Monica Cecilia Lozano is the president of the College Futures Foundation, based in San Francisco. Previously she was an American newspaper editor, the publisher and CEO of La Opinión and CEO of its parent company, ImpreMedia, LLC. Based in Los Angeles, La Opinión is the largest Spanish publication in the United States. She was a member of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. She was appointed by the California State Legislature to join Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Commission on the 21st Century Economy.
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Sally Shaywitz
1942 - Present (82 years)
Sally Shaywitz is an American physician-scientist who is the Audrey G. Ratner Professor in Learning Development at Yale University. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity. Her research provides the framework for modern understanding of dyslexia.
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Janine Chanteur
1924 - 2015 (91 years)
Janine Chanteur was a French philosopher. She was a professor emeritus of moral and political philosophy at the Paris-Sorbonne University. Biography Chanteur was made an associante professor of philosopher in 1978, when she was awarded her doctorate. She later became a professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Paris-Sorbonne . In 1989, she was elected to the position of Secretary General of the International Institute of Political Philosophy. Between 1985 and 1997, she oversaw 29 theses.
Go to ProfileMary L. "Nora" Disis is an American physician-oncologist and the editor in chief of JAMA Oncology. She was part of the scientific team who discovered that the HER2/neu molecule is a tumor-specific marker, or antigen.
Go to ProfileMargaret Fischl is an American physician, HIV/AIDS researcher, and professor of medicine at the University of Miami. She is notable for being one of the first researchers to discover the effectiveness of the antiretroviral medication azidothymidine in treating patents with HIV/AIDS, as well as for helping build the University of Miami's AIDS Clinical Research Unit, of which she served as director. Fischl attended the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, from which she earned her M.D. in 1976, and later served her residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.
Go to ProfileLyda Elena Osorio Amaya is a Colombian physician, epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist. She is an associate professor at the Universidad del Valle, and a researcher at the Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médicas in Cali, Valle del Cauca. Osorio's research has focused mainly on vector-borne diseases like malaria, leishmaniasis, Zika and dengue fever. She has also played a role in Colombia's response against COVID-19.
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Lisa Sowle Cahill
1948 - Present (76 years)
Lisa Sowle Cahill is an American ethicist, and J. Donald Monan Professor at Boston College. She first became known in the 1980s with her studies on gender and sexual ethics, but now she has extended her work to social and global ethics. Lisa Sowle Cahill's work focuses on an attempt to discuss the complexity of moral issues while lowering tensions about theological disagreements between the Church and society.
Go to ProfileChi-Chao Chan is a Chinese-born American ophthalmologist and physician-scientist specialized in the diagnosis and pathology of eye diseases. She joined the National Eye Institute as a postdoctoral researcher in 1982 and remained until her retirement in 2015. Chan was promoted in 1999 to senior investigator and chief of the NEI immunopathology section and the histopathology core.
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