In 1883 an 18-year-old woman addressed a packed house in Serampore college in Bengal, India. “Igo to America because I wish to study medicine,” she declared. “Ladies both European and Native are naturally averse to expose themselves in cases of emergency to treatment by doctors of the other sex. In myhumble opinion, there is...
This WiSE Wednesday’s feature is about Dr. Sarah A. Tishkoff, a leading human evolutionary genomicist at the University of Pennsylvania. CSHL WiSE had the privilege of hosting Dr. Tishkoff as a McClintock Lecturer during the 2021-2022 CSHL Labwide Seminar Series, where she presented recent work on characterizing genomic variation across ethnically and geographically diverse...
This week for WiSE Wednesday we’re featuring Dr. Estelle Ramey co-founder and former president of The Association for Women in Science (AWIS). She was an endocrinologist who became famous after a confrontation and debate with Edgar Berman, a then retired surgeon and part of the Democratic National Committee on National Priorities in 1970. After...
This week for WiSE Wednesday we’re highlighting Beatrice Mintz, who died earlier this year at the age of 100. She was a pioneer in the fields of epigenetics and the tumor microenvironment before the words to describe these fields were invented. She was an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1973...
This week for WiSE Wednesday we’re highlighting Dame Elizabeth Anionwu a British nurse and professor of nursing. She was the first nurse specialist on Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia in the UK, both of which are genetic blood diseases which disproportionately impact minority communities. Elizabeth Anionwu knew she wanted to become a nurse at an...
