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Elizabeth Losh
1965 - Present (59 years)
Elizabeth Losh is a media theorist and digital rhetoric scholar, who is a professor of English and American Studies at the College of William and Mary. Education Elizabeth Losh earned a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing, and a PhD in English with an emphasis in critical theory from University of California at Irvine. She was Director of Academic Programs, Sixth College at University of California at San Diego, where she also taught in Communication, Visual Arts, and the Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts major. She is a member of the edit...
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Christina Curtis
2000 - Present (24 years)
Christina Curtis is an American scientist who is a Professor of Medicine, Genetics and Biomedical Data Science and an Endowed Scholar at Stanford University where her research investigates the evolution of tumors. She is director of Artificial Intelligence and Cancer Genomics at Stanford University School of Medicine and is on the board of directors of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Go to ProfileJulie Bines , is a clinician and researcher working in Melbourne, Australia. Alongside being a professor and deputy head of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, she is also a paediatric gastroenterologist at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne and is the leader of the Enteric Diseases group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. Bines is the joint head of the WHO Collaborative Centre for Child Health and founding member of Women in Global Health Australia.
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Alice Stewart
1906 - 2002 (96 years)
Alice Mary Stewart, née Naish was a British physician and epidemiologist specialising in social medicine and the effects of radiation on health. Her study of radiation-induced illness among workers at the Hanford plutonium production plant, Washington, is frequently cited by those who seek to demonstrate that even very low doses of radiation cause substantial hazard. She was the first person to demonstrate the link between x-rays of pregnant women and high cancer rates in their children. She was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1986 "for bringing to light in the face of official opposit...
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Sophie Postel-Vinay
1950 - Present (74 years)
Sophie Postel-Vinay is a French physician and scientist at the Institut Gustave Roussy where she has led an ATIP-Avenir team since 2018. She works on oncology and the development of new drugs and is an expert in early clinical trials. She was the 2019 winner of the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in the “young woman scientist” category.
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Alison McIntosh
1971 - Present (53 years)
Alison J. McIntosh is a New Zealand tourism and hospitality academic. Previously a professor at the University of Waikato, she is now a professor at Auckland University of Technology. Her research areas include Critical Tourism and Hospitality, Tourist Behaviour and Heritage and Cultural Tourism.
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Christina Annunziata
Christina Messineo Annunziata is an American medical oncologist researching molecular signal transduction in ovarian cancer. She is an investigator in the National Cancer Institute's women's malignancies branch and head of the translational genomics section.
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Oxana Kharissova
1969 - Present (55 years)
Oxana Vasilievna Kharissova is a Ukrainian–Mexican nanoscientist whose research involves the synthesis and solubility of nanoparticles. She is a professor and researcher in the faculty of physical and mathematical sciences at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León.
Go to ProfileShiphra Rachel Ginsburg is a Canadian physician-scientist. In 2019, Ginsburg was appointed a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Medical Education Research at the University of Toronto. Early life and education Ginsburg completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at Queen's University at Kingston and her Medicinæ Doctorem et Chirurgiæ Magistrum at McGill University. Following this, she enrolled at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education for her Master of Education degree before leaving North America for her PhD at Maastricht University.
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Amy Brown
2000 - Present (24 years)
Amy Brown is a Welsh psychologist. She is a Professor of Child Public Health at Swansea University who specialises in maternal and child health, particularly nutrition. She campaigns to bring about better support for women who want to breastfeed and to improve the UK public's attitude towards breastfeeding in public.
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Soumaya Mestiri
1976 - Present (48 years)
Soumaya Mestiri is a Tunisian philosopher. Life After her studies, she was a lecturer at the University Paris, where she supported a thesis in 2003 entitled "The Conception of the Person in the Philosophy of John Rawls: Trial of Reconstruction of the Theory of Justice as Equity," in front of a jury chaired by Emmanuel Picavet, and also including Catherine Audard and Monique Canto-Sperber. Next, she conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve and, in 2005, returned to teach in Tunisia. She was a professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Tunis.
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Kum-Kum Bhavnani
1951 - Present (73 years)
Kum-Kum Bhavnani is an American university professor, filmmaker, and author. As of 2018, she is a Professor of Sociology and Distinguished Professor with Feminist Studies and Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is Chair of the interdisciplinary program in Women, Culture, Development. She served as the Chair of the University of California Academic Senate.
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Sarah Haffner
1940 - 2018 (78 years)
Sarah Haffner was a German-British painter, author, and active feminist. In West Berlin she engaged with the protest issues of the 1960s, on occasion alongside her father, the journalist and writer Sebastian Haffner. Through a television documentary and a book she was instrumental in the late 1970s in establishing the city's first women's shelter. The range of her painting included portraits, still lifes, landscapes and cityscapes.
Go to ProfileNancy H. Nielsen is an American physician. She is the senior associate dean for health policy in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. In 2009, Nielsen was recognized with an election to the Institute of Medicine for her medical advocacy work.
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Sue Hill
1955 - Present (69 years)
Dame Susan Lesley Hill has been the Chief Scientific Officer for England since October 2002. Professional and academic background Hill's professional background is as a healthcare scientist in the National Health Service specialising in respiratory medicine. She gained a PhD in Respiratory Sciences having undertaken a programme of basic science research into the pathogenesis of chronic lung disease at the University of Birmingham. She spent three decades at what is now University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and as an academic at the University of Birmingham Medical School. Sh...
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Linda Stone
1955 - Present (69 years)
Linda Stone is a writer and consultant who coined the phrase "continuous partial attention" in 1998. Stone also coined "email apnea" in 2008 which means "a temporary absence or suspension of breathing, or shallow breathing, while doing email."
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Lene Auestad
1973 - Present (51 years)
Lene Auestad is an author and a philosopher from the University of Oslo. She has written on the themes of prejudice, social exclusion and minority rights, and has contributed to public debates on hate speech.
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Daria Chubata
1940 - Present (84 years)
Daria Dmytrivna Chubata is a Ukrainian physician, author, and social activist. She became a member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine in 2003, and twice served as a member of the Ternopil Oblast Council . In 1980, she was awarded the Distinguished Healthcare Worker of the USSR.
Go to ProfileSharon Goldfeld is a paediatrician and public health physician, who is Director of the Centre for Community and Child Health at the Royal Children's Hospital, Co-Group Leader of the Policy and Equity Research Group, and Theme Director, Population Health, at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.
Go to ProfileCigall Kadoch is an American biochemist and cancer biologist who is Associate Professor of Pediatric Oncology at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her research is focused in chromatin regulation and how changes in cellular structure can lead to human diseases, such as Cancer, Neurodevelopmental disorders, and others. She is internationally recognized for her work on the mammalian SWI/SNF complex, a large molecular machine known as a Chromatin remodeling complex. She was named as one of the world's leading sc...
Go to ProfileShinjini Bhatnagar is an Indian pediatric gastroenterologist. She is elected as Fellow of National Academy of Sciences. Her research was recognised by the World Health Organization , and at 2nd World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition. She was awarded the Dr. ST Achar Gold Medal Award for Research in Child Health, and Hotam Tomar Gold Medal in recognition of her research in Pediatric Gastroenterology.
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Nahid Bhadelia
1975 - Present (49 years)
Nahid Bhadelia is an American infectious-diseases physician, founding director of Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research , an associate director at National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University, and an associate professor at the Boston University School of Medicine. She currently serves as the Senior Policy Advisor for Global COVID-19 Response on the White House COVID-19 Response Team.
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Janet Carr
1933 - 2014 (81 years)
Janet Howard Carr was an Australian physiotherapist and academic whose research focused on stroke rehabilitation. She was a professor at the University of Sydney and published numerous textbooks. Childhood Janet Carr was born in 1933 to Howard and Gladys Carr. Carr is one of three children to Howard and Gladys Carr, and grew up on their sheep-grazing property at Kerr's Creek, 25 kilometres from Orange, New South Wales. She walked across paddocks to attend classes in a one-room one-teacher school, Kinross Wolaroi School, before going to board at PLC , in Orange. Being raised in the bush gave J...
Go to ProfileKatrin Rittinger is a professor in structural biology who has made significant contributions to the ubiquitination field. She is a senior scientist at the Francis Crick Institute and was awarded European Molecular Biology Organization membership in 2019. Rittinger is on the Editorial Board of Biochemical Journal and has written on transparency and openness in science.
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Jennifer Herdt
1967 - Present (57 years)
Jennifer A. Herdt is an American philosopher and Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Yale Divinity School. She is known for her works on moral philosophy.
Go to ProfileIrene Cybulsky is a Canadian lawyer and former cardiac surgeon. She was the first woman in Canada to be appointed head of a cardiac surgery division. After being dismissed from this position, she "represent[ed] herself in a human rights tribunal case against her former hospital", which was ultimately successful.
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Benjy F. Brooks
1918 - 1998 (80 years)
Benjy Frances Brooks was an American pediatric surgeon affiliated with several hospitals in Houston. She was the first woman in the surgery department at Harvard Medical School and the first woman to become a pediatric surgeon in the state of Texas. She founded the pediatric surgery division at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Brooks actively conducted research throughout her career in addition to working as a pediatric surgeon.
Go to ProfileSarah-Jane Dawson is an Australian clinician-scientist. She is a consultant medical oncologist and head of the Molecular Biomarkers and Translational Genomics Laboratory at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. Her current research interests are focused on the development of noninvasive blood-based biomarkers for clinical application, including early detection, risk stratification and disease monitoring in cancer management.
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Vera Ignjatovic
1975 - Present (49 years)
Vera Ignjatovic is a medical researcher specialising in paediatric thrombosis and haemostasis and in proteomics. Early life and education Ignjatovic was born in Niš, Nišava, Serbia on 15 March 1975. She has a BSc and a PhD, for her thesis titled "The effects of a phytochemical preparation on lipid metabolism in obesity: the study of 'Slimax', a Chinese herbal mixture", from Monash University.
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Berta Jereb
1925 - Present (99 years)
Berta Jereb is a Slovenian oncologist and the first Slovenian radiotherapist. She studied medicine in Vienna, Ljubljana, and Belgrade, and she received her bachelor's degree from the University of Ljubljana in 1950. In 1955, she specialised in radiotherapy and defended her master's thesis at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. In 1973, she went to the United States, where she worked at the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center from 1973 to 1975 and from 1977 to 1984. For many years, she also worked at the Ljubljana Oncology Institute. Since 1993, she has been a full professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ljubljana.
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Ilit Ferber
1973 - Present (51 years)
Ilit Ferber is an associate professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. Academic biography During the years 1998–2002, Ferber was a student at the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students at Tel Aviv University. Her Master Thesis, "Truth and the idea in Walter Benjamin's early writings", was written at the department of philosophy. Ferber continued to pursue a Ph.D. in philosophy, which she wrote between the years 2003-2008 under the supervision of . Her dissertation was titled "Melancholy and philosophy: Walter Benjamin's early writings". During her Ph.D. studies, ...
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Guro Valen
1960 - 2014 (54 years)
Guro Valen was a Norwegian professor of medicine. She was a daughter of political scientist Henry Valen. She worked at the University of Tromsø, Karolinska Institutet and the University of Oslo, and was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. She died from cancer in September 2014.
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Aleksandra Pawliszyn
1958 - Present (66 years)
Aleksandra Pawliszyn is a Polish philosopher, specializing in the areas of phenomenology and philosophical hermeneutics. Biography She obtained her doctorate in 1991 at Warsaw University on the basis of a work titled: Czynności rozumienia w hermeneutyce Gadamerai psychoanalizie Freuda, and qualified as an assistant professor in 2002, also at Warsaw University, on the basis of a work titled: Krajobrazyczasu. Obecne dociekania egzystencjalnej wartości czasu. For a period of eight years she was head of The Department of Learning Theory at the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Journalism at Gdańsk University.
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Anne-Maria Laukkanen
1966 - Present (58 years)
Anne-Maria Laukkanen is a Finnish researcher and a permanent full professor of speech technique and vocology at the University of Tampere. She has supervised 12 doctoral dissertations and 23 master theses and is now supervising 7 doctoral dissertations. She is a peer reviewer in 23 international scientific journals.
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Barbara Sattler
1974 - Present (50 years)
Barbara Michaela Sattler is a Senior Lecturer in philosophy at St Andrews University. Her area of research is metaphysics and natural philosophy in the ancient Greek world. Career From January to March 2017, she was an Institute of Advanced Study Fellow at St John's College, Durham.
Go to ProfileEnitan Carrol is a British physician and Professor of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology. Carrol studies the mechanisms that underpin bacterial infection. In 2020 she was featured in Nicola Rollock's exhibition Phenomenal Women: Portraits of UK Black Female Professors.
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Elizabeth Yakel
1960 - Present (64 years)
Elizabeth Yakel is an archivist, researcher, and educator in information science. Yakel is known for work advancing archival practice, the use of primary sources in archives education, studies of data reuse practices, and digital curation. Yakel is the senior associate dean for academic affairs and a professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, where she has been on the faculty since 2000. She is the former coordinator of the Preservation of Information specialization in the Master of Science in Information program and teaches in the Archives and Record Management area. She s...
Go to ProfileMary De Vera is a Canadian pharmacoepidemiologist, health services researcher, and academic. De Vera is an assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department at the University of British Columbia and is the Canada Research Chair in medication adherence, utilization, and outcomes.
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Hazel K. Bell
1935 - Present (89 years)
Hazel K. Bell is an indexer, editor and writer. Bell was editor of The Indexer and Learned Publishing journals. She has created nearly 900 book indexes and has also written and edited several books. Bell received the Carey Award for services to indexing in 1997 and has been awarded the Wheatley Medal of the Society of Indexers for an outstanding index twice in 2005 and 2006.
Go to ProfileDaniela M. Ferreira is a Brazilian British immunologist. She is a specialist in bacterial infection, respiratory co-infection, mucosal immunology and vaccine responses. She is currently Professor of Respiratory Infection and Vaccinology at the Oxford Vaccine Group in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Oxford and the Director of the Liverpool Vaccine Group at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. She leads a team of scientists studying protective immune responses against pneumococcus and other respiratory pathogens such as SARS-CoV2. Her team has established a novel method of inducing pneumococcal carriage in human volunteers.
Go to ProfileKathrin Muegge is a German physician and molecular biologist researching chromatin organization during embryonic development and in tumor progression. She is a senior investigator and head of the epigenetics section at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research.
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Linda Burhansstipanov
2000 - Present (24 years)
Linda Burhansstipanov is an American public health educator and researcher. She is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and specializes on cancer care and support in Native American communities. A leader in Native American cancer research, she is the founder and president of the Native American Cancer Research Corporation, a non-profit organization that studies how the unique situations of Native Americans interact with cancer treatment. She is also a member of the National Institutes of Health national advisory council on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Native American com...
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Hazel Hall
1963 - Present (61 years)
Hazel Jane Read Hall is a British Information scientist and academic. She is Emeritus Professor in the School of Computing, Engineering, and Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland and Docent in Information Studies in the School of Business and Economics at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.
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Jin Eun-young
1970 - Present (54 years)
Jin Eun-young is a South Korean poet and philosopher. She has been praised by the poet Choi Seung-ja, who said “I’ve finally found a poet whom I can call my true successor." Life Jin Eun-young was born in Daejeon, South Korea in 1970. She received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in philosophy at Ewha Womans' University. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on Nichewa chaiui cheorak . She made her literary debut when "Keodaran changoga itneun jip" and three of her other poems were published in the 2000 Spring issue of Literature and Society. She has three poetry collections published to date: Ilgop gaeui daneoro dwen sajeon , Urineun maeilmaeil , and Humcheoganeun norae .
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Fran Hosken
1919 - 2006 (87 years)
Fran P. Hosken was an American designer, writer, feminist, and social activist. She founded the Women's International Network in 1975, and published a quarterly journal on women's health issues that became known, in particular, for its research into female genital mutilation .
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Siglind Bruhn
1951 - Present (73 years)
Siglind Bruhn is a German musicologist, writer and concert pianist. Biography and career Siglind Bruhn was born in Hamburg. Her father was the engineer Ernst Bruhn, her mother the interpreter Leonore Bruhn née Kieberger. She made her first solo concerts and performances with orchestras as a soloist at the age of 14. During the last two years before her high school graduation , she was a student in the piano class of Professor Eckart Besch at the Musikhochschule Hamburg. She completed her studies in the master class of Vladimir Horbowski at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart; 1975 State Examen in piano performance and piano pedagogy.
Go to ProfileTeresa Thomas "Terry" Fulmer, is the current president of The John A. Hartford Foundation. Earlier positions include distinguished professor and dean of the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University and dean of the College of Nursing at New York University. She is known for her extensive research in geriatrics and elder abuse. She has received funding from the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Nursing Research and other foundations for her research regarding elder abuse.
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Mary Pannbacker
2000 - 2015 (15 years)
Mary Pannbacker was a speech-language pathologist and university professor. She held an endowed chair, the Albertson's Professor of Speech-Language Pathology, at LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport. She was a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Go to ProfileCharlotte E. Coles is a British oncologist and professor at the University of Cambridge Her research focuses on using personalised radiation therapy for people with breast cancer. In 2019 she was awarded a Research Professorship at the National Institute for Health Research .
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Brigitte Young
1946 - Present (78 years)
Brigitte Young , is Professor Emeritus of International political economy at the Institute of Political Science, University of Münster, Germany. Her research areas include economic globalization, global governance, feminist economics, international trade, global financial market governance and monetary policy. She has worked on EU-US financial regulatory frameworks, European economic and monetary integration and heterodox economic theories. She is the author of many journal articles and books in English and German on the Global financial crisis of 2008–2009, the US Subprime mortgage crisis...
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