#1501
Aminata Diaw
1959 - 2017 (58 years)
Aminata Diaw Cissé was a Senegalese lecturer and political philosopher who taught at the Cheikh Anta Diop University . Influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and her academia background, she wrote about citizenship, civil society, democracy, development, ethnicity, gender, globalisation, human rights, identity, nationality and the state in an African and Senegalese context by using a political insight. Diaw worked for the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa , Bellagio Study and Conference Center of the Rockfeller Foundation, National UNESCO Sub-Commission on Social S...
Go to ProfileRulan S. Parekh is an American-Canadian clinician-scientist and nephrologist. She is the vice president of research, education and innovation at Women's College Hospital and former senior scientist in Child Health Evaluative Sciences and Associate Chief of Clinical Research at SickKids.
Go to Profile#1503
Audrey Niffenegger
1963 - Present (61 years)
Audrey Niffenegger is an American writer, artist and academic. Her debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, published in 2003, was a bestseller. Biography Audrey Niffenegger was born in 1963 in South Haven, Michigan. Then she moved to Evanston, Illinois and has since spent a majority of her life in Chicago. Niffenegger started writing books when she was six years old. Niffenegger completed her undergraduate degree at the Art Institute of Chicago where she worked on becoming a visual artist. After completing her undergraduate degree, she got her M.F.A at Northwestern University. Niffenegger is ...
Go to Profile#1504
Nisreen Alwan
2000 - Present (24 years)
Nisreen Ala-Din A. S. Alwan MBE is a British–Iraqi public health researcher who is a professor of Public Health at the University of Southampton. Her research considers maternal and child health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Alwan used social media to communicate public health messages and to call for long covid to be counted and measured. In 2020, Alwan was selected as one of the BBC's top 100 Women.
Go to Profile#1505
Jane C. Wright
1919 - 2013 (94 years)
Jane Cooke Wright was a pioneering cancer researcher and surgeon noted for her contributions to chemotherapy. In particular, Wright is credited with developing the technique of using human tissue culture rather than laboratory mice to test the effects of potential drugs on cancer cells. She also pioneered the use of the drug methotrexate to treat breast cancer and skin cancer .
Go to Profile#1506
Ulana Suprun
1963 - Present (61 years)
Ulana Nadia Suprun is a Ukrainian-American physician, activist, and philanthropist who served as the acting Minister of Healthcare from 2016 to 2019. Prior to her government career, Suprun served as Director of Humanitarian Initiatives for the Ukrainian World Congress.
Go to Profile#1507
Bernadette Wegenstein
1969 - Present (55 years)
Bernadette Wegenstein is a Research Professor and director of the Center for Advanced Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She has written books on media theory including Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory, The Cosmetic Gaze: Body Modification and the Construction of Beauty.
Go to Profile#1508
Ljiljana Filipović
1951 - Present (73 years)
Ljiljana Filipović is a Croatian author and philosopher. Filipović received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Zagreb. Her first published work in literature was a radio play produced by Radio Zagreb in 1973. Besides writing radio plays . For innovation in the radio program she received annual prize in 2002 from Croatian radio. She taught Philosophical and psychoanalytic critique of drama text at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb from 1998 until 2013 when she acquired position of the associate professor.
Go to ProfileJane Feuer was a Professor of film studies in the English and Communication Departments at the University of Pittsburgh, United States. She was a film and television studies scholar and one of the founders of Console-ing Passions, a biennial conference in feminism, television, video and new media.
Go to Profile#1510
Carolyn McLeod
1969 - Present (55 years)
Carolyn McLeod is a Canadian bioethicist and feminist philosopher. She is a professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. In 2021, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Go to Profile#1511
Sarah Fortune
1968 - Present (56 years)
Sarah Merritt Fortune is an American Immunologist. She is a Full Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Go to Profile#1512
Margaret Schabas
1954 - Present (70 years)
Margaret Schabas is a Canadian philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia notable for her work in the history and philosophy of science, particularly the science of economics. Schabas has also published numerous articles and book chapters on the British empiricists, David Hume, Adam Smith, and John Stuart Mill.
Go to Profile#1513
Ruth Hall
1973 - Present (51 years)
Ruth Hall is a professor at PLAAS at the University of the Western Cape, which she joined in 2002. A political scientist by training, she specialises in the politics and the political economy of agrarian reform, land redistribution, and poverty.
Go to Profile#1514
Patricia Charache
1929 - 2015 (86 years)
Patricia Charache was a physician specializing in infectious disease and microbiology. She was a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for more than 50 years, retiring as a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Pathology, Medicine, and Oncology.
Go to Profile#1515
Margaret Hayes Grazier
1916 - 1999 (83 years)
Margaret Hayes Grazier was an American librarian, educator, and published author in the field of Library and Information science, who specialized in school librarianship. She worked as a school librarian at various high schools and, later in her career, as a professor of library science at Wayne State University. Grazier had developed a model to guide library media specialists to become fully immersed in the entire cycle of the student's learning process, everything from storytelling to planning and evaluating curriculum. She was active in several important library organizations, including th...
Go to Profile#1516
Selna Kaplan
1927 - 2010 (83 years)
Selna Lucille Kaplan was an American pediatric endocrinologist and a professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. She led the first American clinical trials of growth hormone treatment.
Go to ProfileTania Marjorie Bubela is a professor and dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. Education Born and raised in Australia, Bubela earned her bachelor's degree in 1988 from the Australian National University and her PhD from the University of Sydney.
Go to ProfileSandra Collins is an Irish mathematician and leading academic librarian, who is the university librarian of University College Dublin, Ireland's largest university, since 2022. She was director of the National Library of Ireland from 2015.
Go to ProfileGrace Fong, D.M.A., is the American Director of Keyboard Studies at Chapman University Conservatory of Music and has an active solo and chamber music career. She also performs as part of the Selvaggi Trio.
Go to Profile#1520
Amina Zoubeidi
2000 - Present (24 years)
Amina Zoubeidi is a Canadian research scientist and prostate cancer researcher. She's a scientist at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and an associate professor in the Department of Urologic Sciences at the University of British Columbia. During her tenure at UBC, Zoubeidi and her research team developed the first drug that targets and blocks BRN2, thus stopping Neuroendocrine prostate cancer tumours and creating a possible treatment for the previously thought incurable disease.
Go to ProfileKari C. Nadeau is the Chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health and John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies. She practices Allergy, Asthma, Immunology in children and adults. She has published over 400+ papers, many in the field of climate change and health. Dr. Nadeau, with a team of individuals and patients and families, has been able to help major progress and impact in the clinical fields of immunology, infection, asthma and allergy. Dr. Nadeau is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the U.S. EPA Children’s Health Prote...
Go to Profile#1522
Katrina Brown
1901 - Present (123 years)
Katrina Brown is a Professor of Social Sciences, at the University of Exeter. From 1991–2012, she was a Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. Education Brown has a BSc from University of Newcastle upon Tyne, an MSc from the University of Reading, and a Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham. Following her Ph.D, she was at the University of East Anglia until 2012 at which point she moved to the University of Exeter.
Go to Profile#1523
Teresa Rees
1946 - Present (78 years)
Dame Teresa Lesley Rees, DBE, FAcSS, FLSW was a British social scientist, and a professor at Cardiff University. She specialised in the analysis of gender equality within education, training and labour market policies.
Go to Profile#1524
Annette Michelson
1922 - 2018 (96 years)
Annette Michelson was an American art and film critic and writer. Her work contributed to the fields of cinema studies and the avant-garde in visual culture. Biography Born in 1922, Michelson graduated from Hunter College High School circa 1940 and Brooklyn College in 1948. Between 1956 and 1966, she was art editor and critic for the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune while also writing for Arts Magazine and Art International. She worked as a writer for Artforum, where she edited the influential issues on 'Eisenstein/Brakhage' in 1973 and the 'Special Film Issue' in 1973. Togethe...
Go to ProfileNatascha Drubek-Meyer is a researcher, author and editor in the area of Central and East European literature, film and media. Since 2012 Drubek has been teaching comparative literature, and film and media studies, at the Free University of Berlin
Go to Profile#1526
Edythe Scott Bagley
1924 - 2011 (87 years)
Edythe Scott Bagley was an American author, activist, and educator. The older sister of Coretta Scott King, she worked behind the scenes to promote the Civil Rights Movement and was actively involved in many of the crucial events of that era.
Go to ProfileErin N. Marcus, M.D., M.P.H is an internal medicine doctor who writes on public health and health disparity issues for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New York Times and other publications. Career Marcus is a general internist and a professor of clinical medicine at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. Much of her non-academic writing focuses on how different public policies affect the diverse patients she sees as a primary care physician in Miami.
Go to ProfileMelita Alison Gordon is a gastroenterologist who works on invasive gut pathogens and tropical gastrointestinal disease. She leads the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Salmonella and Enterics Group. Gordon was awarded the British Society of Gastroenterology Sir Francis Avery Jones Research Medal in 2011.
Go to Profile#1529
Fatma Chamakh-Haddad
1936 - 2013 (77 years)
Fatma Chamakh-Haddad or Fatma Haddad-Chamakh was a professor, philosopher, feminist and Tunisian activist. Early life and education Born in 1936 in Tunis, Fatma Chamakh-Haddad came from a family of Muslim and nationalist intellectuals. She was educated as a child in Tunis, notably in the Russian high school. As a teenager, she became a member of the Neo Destour and the General Union of Tunisian Students . She then went to university in Paris, where she joined her brothers.
Go to Profile#1530
Annika Linde
1948 - Present (76 years)
Gerda Annika Linde is a Swedish physician, virologist and retired civil servant. From 2005 to 2013 she served as State Epidemiologist at the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control. Biography Linde was born in Skövde and grew up there. She was inspired by the novel Exodus by Leon Uris to study medicine. She enrolled at Gothenburg University in 1968, studying medicine and sociology, obtaining a medical degree in 1974. After her internship at Danderyd Hospital she went on to work as an infectious disease specialist at the presently defunct Roslagstull Hospital in Stockholm. In 1979 s...
Go to Profile#1531
Mary Stuart Fisher
1922 - 2006 (84 years)
Mary Stuart Fisher was an American radiologist who won the Marie Curie Award of the American Association for Women Radiologists. She spent the majority of her career as a professor of radiology at Temple University.
Go to Profile#1532
Mary Ellen Wohl
1932 - Present (92 years)
Mary Ellen Beck Wohl was Chief of the Division of Respiratory Diseasess at Children's Hospital Boston , and served as Associate Director of the General Clinical Research Center until 2002. Since the 1962, when she first joined the staff at Children's Hospital, Wohl specialized in the respiratory diseases of children. She was also a leader in the field of clinical research on cystic fibrosis. She developed a number of techniques to evaluate the function of the lungs in young children and is the author of many research papers in this field.
Go to Profile#1533
Michelle C. Williams
Michelle Claire Williams is a Scottish physician and professor at the University of Edinburgh. She is president elect of the British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging. Her research makes use of medical imaging and machine learning to understand cardiovascular disease.
Go to Profile#1534
Diane Purkiss
1961 - Present (63 years)
Diane Purkiss is an Australian historian, and Fellow and Tutor of English at Keble College, Oxford. She specialises in Renaissance and women's literature, witchcraft and the English Civil War. Purkiss was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and was educated at Roseville College, Our Lady of the Rosary Convent, and Stuartholme School. She received a BA with first class Honours from the University of Queensland and D.Phil. from Merton College, Oxford. She became lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia in 1991, and lecturer in English at the University of Reading in 1993. In 1998 she...
Go to ProfileSamra Turajlic is a medical oncologist and cancer researcher. She leads the cancer dynamics lab at the Francis Crick Institute in London, which focuses on understanding how cancers evolve, as well as working as an oncologist at the Royal Marsden.
Go to ProfileHelen Boucher is Dean of Tufts University School of Medicine and Chief Academic Officer of Tufts Medicine, the parent health system for Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Prior to this, she served as Chief of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center, a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Director of the Stuart B. Levy Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance at Tufts.
Go to Profile#1537
Jane Anderson
1952 - Present (72 years)
Jane Anderson is a British physician who specialises in the management of HIV/AIDS. She has served as an expert advisor for Public Health England and is Chair of the National AIDS Trust. Early life and education Anderson was born in Swindon, Wiltshire on 23 December 1952. She originally trained as a nutritionist at Queen Elizabeth College. In an interview with The BMJ Anderson revealed that as a teenager she had underperformed in her A-levels and had initially not secured a place at medical school. Eventually she was accepted as a mature student to St Mary's Hospital Medical School. She started work as a research assistant in a metabolic unit.
Go to Profile#1538
Pauline Byakika
1974 - Present (50 years)
Pauline Byakika–Kibwika , is a Ugandan specialist physician, internist, epidemiologist, academic and researcher, who serves as an Associate Professor of Medicine at Makerere University College of Health Sciences. From 2017 until 2019, she served as the Vice President of the Uganda Medical Association, a professional industry association, that champions medical doctors' interests in the county.
Go to ProfileMargaret Moore is a Canadian political theorist, academic and scholar. She is a Professor of Political Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University at Kingston. Moore has written on territorial and global distributive justice, just war theory, historical injustice, nationalism, multiculturalism, immigration, and place-related interests. Moore has authored four books including Foundations of Liberalism, The Ethics of Nationalism, A Political Theory of Territory, and Who Should Own Natural Resources?.
Go to Profile#1540
Carrie L. Byington
2000 - Present (24 years)
Carrie L. Byington is a Mexican–American clinician and pediatric infectious disease specialist. In 2016, she became the first Hispanic woman to serve as Dean of a United States medical school upon her appointment at the Texas A&M University.
Go to ProfileAida Habtezion is an Eritrean physician and immunologist. In 2021, Habtezion took a leave of absence from Stanford University to become the Chief Medical Officer of Pfizer and head of Worldwide Medical and Safety within Worldwide Research, Development, and Medicine.
Go to Profile#1542
Stacy Tessler Lindau
Stacy Tessler Lindau is an American gynecologist and practicing OB-GYN. She is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine-Geriatrics at the University of Chicago and director of the Program in Integrative Sexual Medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Go to Profile#1543
Fatima Cody Stanford
Fatima Cody Stanford is an American obesity medicine physician, internist, and pediatrician and an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She is one of the most highly cited scientists in the field of obesity. She is recognized for shifting the global perception of obesity as a chronic disease.
Go to Profile#1544
Chow Chung-cheng
1908 - 1996 (88 years)
Chow Chung-cheng was a Chinese artist known for her finger painting and autobiographical books. Early life and education Zhou was born the 4th child in a family of two girls and three boys . Her father, Zhou Xuehui, the youngest son of Zhou Fu, was a successful businessman who ran many of his brother Zhou Xuexi's enterprises. She was born Zhou Lianquan , but later changed her name to Zhongzheng.
Go to Profile#1545
Phyllis Richmond
1921 - 1997 (76 years)
Phyllis Allen Richmond was a historian of science and librarian recognized for her work in classification and cataloging. Her dissertation "Americans and the Germ Theory of Disease" was a leading theory of history of medicine for nearly 40 years and she later published seminal work in classification theory.
Go to Profile#1546
Ginette Vincendeau
1948 - Present (76 years)
Ginette Vincendeau is a French-born British-based academic who is a professor of film studies at King's College London. Early life and education Vincendeau was educated at the Lycée Lamartine and Lycée Sophie Germain in Paris, and the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, gaining a degree in English language and literature. She taught French in schools in the UK and at the University of East Anglia, before completing a doctorate in film studies, supervised by Thomas Elsaesser.
Go to Profile#1547
Maryna Tkachuk
1964 - Present (60 years)
Maryna Tkachuk is a Ukrainian historian of philosophy, Dean of Faculty of Humanities of National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. She was awarded the state award "Honoured Figure of Science and Technology of Ukraine" in 2015.
Go to ProfileEmily Dawson is a teacher in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Career Dawson's research focuses on how people encounter and engage with science, with an emphasis on equity and social justice.
Go to Profile#1549
Claudia Maurer Zenck
1948 - Present (76 years)
Claudia Maurer Zenck is a German musicologist. Early life, family and education She was born in Bremen. She earned her promotion in 1974 at the Technical University of Berlin and her habilitation in 2000 in Innsbruck.
Go to Profile#1550
Tracie D. Hall
1968 - Present (56 years)
Tracie D. Hall is an American librarian, author, curator, and advocate for the arts who served as the executive director of the American Library Association from 2020 to 2023. Hall is the first African American woman to lead the association since its founding in 1876.
Go to Profile