Hanah Margalit is a Professor in the faculty of medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research combines bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology, specifically in the fields of gene regulation in bacteria and eukaryotes.
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Isabella Eckerle
1980 - Present (44 years)
Isabella Eckerle is a German virologist who is the co-Head of the Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases at the Geneva University Hospitals and the University of Geneva. Her research considers infectious diseases and the development of cell lines that allow a better understanding of their epidemiology. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Eckerle studied the difference in response of adults and children to coronavirus disease.
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Ladette Randolph
1957 - Present (67 years)
Ladette Randolph is an American author and editor. Ladette Randolph is the author of five books: three novels: Private Way, Haven’s Wake and A Sandhills Ballad, a short story collection, This is Not the Tropics, and a memoir, Leaving the Pink House. She is the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Ploughshares at Emerson College and co-owner of the manuscript consulting firm Randolph Lundine. A long-time Nebraskan, she spent her childhood in the same part of west-central Nebraska where her family lived for five generations. She now lives in Boston with her husband Noel.
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Dorothy Grover
1936 - 2017 (81 years)
Dorothy Lucille Grover was a New Zealand philosopher of logic who worked as a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was known for prosententialism, a deflationary theory of truth in which assertions of the truth of a proposition combine with the proposition to form a pro-sentence, a part of speech which refers to the proposition itself much like a pronoun refers to a noun.
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Helen Stokes-Lampard
1970 - Present (54 years)
Dame Helen Jayne Stokes-Lampard , FLSW is a British medical academic and a medical general practitioner. She is Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges a GP principal and Chair of the National Academy for Social Prescribing . She was Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners from November 2016 to November 2019. She is also a professor of GP Education at Birmingham University and holds a visiting chair at St George's, University of London.
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Kay O'Halloran
1958 - Present (66 years)
Kay L. O'Halloran is an Australian-born academic in the field of multimodal discourse analysis. She is Chair Professor and Head of Department of Communication and Media in the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool and Visiting Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University . She is the founding director of the Multimodal Analysis Laboratory of the Interactive and Digital Media Institute at the National University of Singapore . She is widely known for her development of systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis and its application in the realm of mathematical discourse and multimodal text construction.
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Anne Macaulay
1924 - 1998 (74 years)
Anne Macaulay was a Scottish musicologist, author and lecturer. Biography Macaulay was born in Aithernie, Fife in Scotland near Lundin standing stones, the youngest child of Alison and Sir David Russell. Her family soon moved to Silverburn near Lundin Links where her father managed a paper-making business through the Great Depression and had interests in religion, archaeology, industry and a good sense of family values. She attended St Leonards School in St Andrews during the Second World War going on to briefly attend the University of Edinburgh which she departed for South Africa she learned how to fly an aeroplane.
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Anna Amalie Abert
1906 - 1996 (90 years)
Anna Amalie Abert or Anna Abert was a German musicologist. Life Abert was born in Halle in 1906. Abert was the daughter of the music historian Hermann Abert. She studied with Hans Joachim Moser and Friedrich Blume at the University of Kiel. From 1943 to 1971 she worked at the university. In 1950 she became a professor. She has studied the works of Heinrich Schütz, Monteverdi , Gluck and Richard Strauss.
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Elizabeth S. Radcliffe
Elizabeth S. Radcliffe is Professor of philosophy at William & Mary. She is the author of Hume, Passion, and Action, which discusses David Hume's views on passion's role in driving our actions and constituting our moral judgments. Simon Blackburn calls it "a beautifully judged, balanced, and therefore especially valuable addition to the literature."
Go to ProfileIrini Sereti is a Greek scientist and physician. She is chief of the HIV pathogenesis section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Sereti researches immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome, idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia, and immune-based therapeutic strategies of HIV investigation.
Go to ProfileJosephine P. Briggs is an American nephrologist and director emeritus of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health , an agency of the National Institutes of Health. She is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
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Phoebe Gloeckner
1960 - Present (64 years)
Phoebe Louise Adams Gloeckner , is an American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and novelist. Early life Gloeckner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her mother was a librarian and her father, David Gloeckner, was a commercial illustrator. Her father's family was Quaker and she attended Quaker schools when she was young. She has a younger sister.
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June E. Osborn
1937 - Present (87 years)
Dr. June E. Osborn has served as an expert advisor on numerous urgent medical and health issues that include infectious diseases and their vaccines, virology, and public health policy as well as publishing research on these subjects. Osborn currently works on public health policy with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The World Health Organization, The National Institutes of Health, and The Food and Drug Administration.
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Ronnie Lichtman
1950 - Present (74 years)
Ronnie Sue Lichtman, is a midwife, educator, writer and advocate for women's health. She has published widely for both lay and professional audiences. The Chair of the Midwifery Education Program at The State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in New York City, she earned a Ph.D. in sociomedical sciences from Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and her MS in Maternity Nursing with a specialization in midwifery from Columbia University School of Nursing. She previously directed the midwifery programs at Columbia University and Stony Brook University.
Go to ProfileJan Erkert is a choreographer, teacher, author and Head of the Department of Dance at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dance company As Artistic Director of Jan Erkert & Dancers from 1979 to 2000, she created over 70 modern dances. Ms. Erkert's work has been seen throughout the United States as well as in Germany, Mexico, Taiwan, Japan, Uruguay and Israel. Ms. Erkert and the company have been honored with numerous awards including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council, and Ruth Page Awards for choreography and performance. She has received two Fulbright Scholar Awards and is currently serving on the Fulbright panel.
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Sarah Lewis
1979 - Present (45 years)
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis is an associate professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African-American studies at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the intersection of African American and Black Atlantic visual representation, racial justice, and representational democracy in the United States from the nineteenth century through the present.
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Marie Jalowicz-Simon
1922 - 1998 (76 years)
Marie Jalowicz was a German philologist and historian of philosophy. She became known to larger audiences for her autobiographical account of the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, which was published posthumously.
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Pamela Shoemaker
1950 - Present (74 years)
Pamela J. Shoemaker is a professor of communication and gatekeeping theorist. From 1994 until her retirement in 2015, Shoemaker was the John Ben Snow Professor, an endowed research chair, in the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She was previously the director of the School of Journalism at Ohio State University and earlier was on the faculty of the Department of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin.
Go to ProfileSonia Gandhi is a British physician and neuroscientist who leads the Francis Crick Institute neurodegeneration laboratory. She holds a joint position at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. Her research investigates the molecular mechanisms that give rise to Parkinson's disease. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gandhi was involved with the epidemiological investigations and testing efforts at the Francis Crick Institute.
Go to ProfileElizabeth Klerman is a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School whose research focuses on applying circadian and sleep research principles to human physiology and pathophysiology. She also uses mathematical analysis and modeling to study human circadian, sleep, and objective neurobehavioral performance and subjective mood and alertness rhythms.
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Julie Story Byerley
1970 - Present (54 years)
Julie Story Byerley is an American physician who is known as a leader in the fields of medical education and pediatrics. Byerley has served as a clinical professor and Vice Dean for Education for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. She currently serves as President and Dean of Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine as well as Executive Vice President and Chief Academic Officer for Geisinger Health System.
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Glòria Muñoz
1949 - Present (75 years)
Glòria Muñoz is a Spanish painter, and a professor of painting at the University of Barcelona. Life and work Glòria Muñoz Pfister was born on 12 August 1949 in Barcelona, Spain. Her family was artistically inclined. She studied in Barcelona at l'Escola Superior de Belles Arts Sant Jordi, completing her art coursework in 1972. In the same year, she married Josep, whose father, painter and professor Josep Puigdengolas Barella, helped her meet important members of Barcelona's exclusive art community. This opportunity, combined with her desire to explore new methods of artistic expression, influe...
Go to ProfileNurida Zulfi kizi Kurbanova is an Azerbaijani philosopher, known for her research in the sphere of alternative medicine and parapsychology. She was born in Shusha city. When Nurida was ten years old, she was hit by lightning and spent over a month in a coma. Nurida Kurbanova has a Ph.D. in philosophy and a candidate of Energy and Information Sciences. For her scientific work, Kurbanova was awarded several high international awards. She is the founder of the International Fund For Contribution for Peace and Culture.
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Kim Cobb
1974 - Present (50 years)
Kim M. Cobb is an American climate scientist. She is Professor of Environment and Society and Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University, where she directs the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. Cobb was previously a professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is particularly interested in oceanography, geochemistry and paleoclimate modeling.
Go to ProfileDebbie Lindsay Shawcross is a British physician and clinician who is a professor at King's College London. Her research looks to better understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underpin chronic liver disease, with a focus on the gut-liver-brain axis.
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Janet Jakobsen
1960 - Present (64 years)
Janet R. Jakobsen is a scholar of gender and sexuality. She is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College and Director of Barnard's Center for Research on Women. She has also been Barnard's Dean for Faculty Diversity and Development.
Go to ProfileKathleen Bell is an American physician, currently the Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Chair in Mobility Research. A fictionalized version of Bell was featured on Saturday Night Live, where she was portrayed by Aidy Bryant.
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Véronique Munoz-Dardé
Véronique Munoz-Dardé is Professor of Philosophy in the University College London Department of Philosophy and Mills Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at University of California at Berkeley. She is known for her works on ethics and political philosophy.
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Gemma Galdón-Clavell
1976 - Present (48 years)
Gemma Galdón-Clavell is a Spanish technology policy analyst who specializes in ethics and algorithmic accountability. She is a senior adviser to the European Commission and she has also provided advice to other international organisations. Forbes Magazine described her as “a leading voice on tech ethics and algorithmic accountability”.
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Elizabeth Vallance
1945 - 2020 (75 years)
Elizabeth Vallance, Baroness Vallance of Tummel, was a British philosopher, magistrate and policy maker. She held non-executive roles on various boards, and was High Sheriff of Greater London in 2009.
Go to ProfileBarbara Zecchi is a feminist film scholar, film critic, videoessayist, and film festival curator. She is professor of Film Studies and director of the Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Go to ProfileLeigh Ebony Boulware is an American general internist, physician-scientist, and clinical epidemiologist. She is the Dean of Wake Forest School of Medicine and chief science officer and vice chief academic officer of Advocate Health. Boulware formerly served as the Nanaline Duke Distinguished Professor of Medicine and director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the Duke University School of Medicine.
Go to ProfileKelly A. Metcalfe is a Canadian scientist and a professor at the University of Toronto and at Women's College Hospital. Her work's focus is on understanding the clinical and psychosocial implications of genetic testing for BRCA gene mutations in women, men and their families.
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Deborah Doniach
1912 - 2004 (92 years)
Deborah Doniach MD FRCP was a British clinical immunologist and pioneer in the field of autoimmune diseases. Early and personal life Deborah Abileah was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on 6 April 1912 to Russian parents. Her father, Arieh Abileah , of Jewish descent, was a concert pianist and music teacher; her mother, Fée Héllès, of Russian-German descent , ran a novel dance school in Paris. The family moved frequently during Deborah's childhood, living at various times in Paris, Vienna and Italy.
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Jeannie Callum
1967 - Present (57 years)
Jeannie Callum is a transfusion medicine specialist and hematologist in Ontario, Canada. She is also a professor at the University of Toronto and Queen's University. She was the co-principal investigator of the CONCOR trial, an international randomized controlled trial evaluating the use of convalescent plasma for the treatment of COVID-19 infection. She was lead editor for Bloody Easy 4: Blood Transfusions, Blood Alternatives and Transfusion Reactions, fourth edition a handbook in transfusion medicine for the province of Ontario.
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Ingrid Miethe
1962 - Present (62 years)
Ingrid Miethe is a German professor of education at the University of Giessen. Her areas of focus include biographical research, the history of education, and connections between education and social inequality. Her book is Biografiearbeit: Lehr- und Handbuch für Studium und Praxis and she coauthored Globalisation of an Educational Idea: Workers’ Faculties in Eastern Germany, Vietnam, Cuba and Mozambique . She instigated the founding of an ethics committee within the German Educational Research Association and has been the chair of this committee since.
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Miriam Galston
1946 - Present (78 years)
Miriam Galston is an American philosopher and associate professor at The George Washington University Law School. She is known for her research on Farabi and won the Farabi International Award for her book Politics and Excellence.
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Jane Kister
1942 - 2019 (77 years)
Jane Elizabeth Kister was a British and American mathematical logician and mathematics editor who served for many years as an editor of Mathematical Reviews. Early life and education Jane Bridge was originally from Weybridge, England, where she was born on 18 October 1944; her father was a lawyer and later a judge. Her family moved to London when she was four, and she studied at St Paul's Girls' School in London. She matriculated at Somerville College, Oxford in 1963, but her studies were interrupted by a diagnosis of lupus; she resumed reading mathematics there in 1964, tutored by Anne Cobbe.
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Sally Banes
1950 - 2020 (70 years)
Sally Rachel Banes was a notable dance historian, writer, and critic. Life, education, and performance career Born and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., Banes studied dance, and particularly ballet, throughout her childhood. She attended the University of Chicago and graduated in 1972 with an interdisciplinary degree in criticism, art, and theater. While at college, she worked as a lighting assistant and wardrobe mistress. She also belonged to a group known as The Collective. Joining in 1970, Banes became one of several actors who met several times a week to collaborate on work.
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Rosalinde Hurley
1929 - 2004 (75 years)
Dame Rosalinde Hurley, DBE, FRCPath, FRCOG , was a British physician, microbiologist, pathologist, public health and medical administrator, ethicist and barrister. She was knighted in 1988 for her services to medicine and public health.
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Julie Gerberding
1955 - Present (69 years)
Julie Louise Gerberding is an American infectious disease expert who was the first woman to serve as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . As of May 2022, she is the CEO of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health . Gerberding grew up in Estelline, South Dakota, attended Brookings High School, and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Case Western Reserve University. She was the chief medical resident at the University of California, San Francisco where she treated hospitalized AIDS patients in the first years of the epidemic. Gerberding be...
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Deborah J. Cook
1960 - Present (64 years)
Deborah J. Cook is a Canadian critical care physician. She is a Canada Research Chair of Research Transfer in Intensive Care at McMaster University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Early life and education Cook was born on October 5, 1960 in Dundas, Ontario. She completed her undergraduate medical degree and internal medicine training at McMaster University, then pursued an advanced fellowship in critical care medicine at Stanford University. She returned to McMaster to complete her Master's degree in design, measurement, and evaluation, before joining the faculty in 1990.
Go to ProfileMary Tinetti is an American physician, and Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University, and Director of the Yale Program on Aging. Life She graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a B.A. in 1973, and from the University of Michigan Medical School with an M.D. in 1978. She was a resident at the University of Minnesota. She studied on a geriatric fellowship at the University of Rochester with Dr. T. Franklin Williams. She pioneered the study of morbidity due to falls by elderly people, and investigated risk-reduction...
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Elena Plante
1961 - Present (63 years)
Elena Margaret Plante is a researcher and speech-language pathologist specializing in developmental language disorders in children and adults. She holds the position of Professor and previously was Head of the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Arizona . She is the principal investigator at the eponymous Plante Laboratory at UA. Plante is also affiliated with the Cognitive Science program at UA.
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Lilica Boal
1934 - Present (90 years)
Maria da Luz Freire de Andrade , better known as Lilica Boal, is a historian, philosopher, educator, and anti-fascist activist in Cape Verde. She fought for the independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, and against the Portuguese Estado Novo dictatorship.
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Sarah Thomas
2000 - Present (24 years)
Sarah Elizabeth Thomas is an American librarian best known for her leadership positions in a number of research libraries. In May 2013 it was announced that she had been appointed vice president for Harvard University Library; she took up the post in August 2013.
Go to ProfileDominique C. Bergmann is a plant scientist with a specific focus on developmental biology and plant biology. Correspondingly, she is a professor of Biology at Stanford University and is in association with the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Additionally, Bergmann is also an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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Wendy Rogers
1957 - Present (67 years)
Wendy Anne Rogers is a professor of clinical ethics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She was nominated as one of Nature's 10 people who mattered in 2019 for revealing ethical failures in China’s studies on organ transplantation.
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Anita Holdcroft
1947 - Present (77 years)
Anita Holdcroft is an Emeritus Professor of Anaesthetics at Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. She specialised in acute pain in women and was the first to study the changes that occur in the brain during parturition.
Go to ProfileCourtney Young is an American librarian and scholar, who served as the president of the American Library Association for the 2014–2015 year. On June 30, 2015, her term as ALA President ended, and she passed the title on to Sari Feldman.
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