Celebrating women in STEM

• Dr Ann Weaver is a biostatistician who is statistically analysing data about wild bottlenose dolphins to understand their behaviour and culture.
• Professor Astrid Linder is a road safety expert who has developed the world’s first female crash test dummy to ensure that new vehicles are designed to protect female drivers and passengers as well as male ones.
• Professor Barbara Zeeb is an environmental scientist who is using plants to remove salts from contaminated soils.
• Dr Beth Stevens and Dr Cherish Taylor are neurobiologists who are investigating how problems with brain development during adolescence can cause schizophrenia.
• Dr Catherine Patocka and Dr Jessalyn Holodinsky, an emergency department doctor and data scientist respectively, are creating a system to optimise patient care in emergency departments.
• Professor Elena Suvorova is a cell biologist who is studying how the Toxoplasma gondii parasite reproduces at a cellular level.
• Dr Émilie Saulnier-Talbot and Dr Hilary Corlett, a biogeographer and geologist respectively, are collecting seafloor sediments from the Canadian Arctic to understand how carbon is transferred from the lad to the sea.
• Dr Holly Graham is a nurse who is supporting Indigenous nurses and empowering healthcare professionals to address racism.
• Dr Jill Maron is a neonatal paediatrician who is developing tests that use saliva to diagnose health conditions in newborn babies.
• Dr Katherine Cook is a translational cancer researcher who is analysing faecal samples to understand how the gut microbiome impacts the outcomes of cancer treatments.
• Kathryn Vaughan and Gillian Power are conservation ecology students who are developing mathematical models to help manage wildlife populations.
• Professor Lali Medina-Kauwe is a biomedical scientist who has created a new protein that can deliver drugs into the brain to fight cancer.
• Dr Marilyn Lightstone is a mechanical engineer who is investigating how to make buildings more energy efficient.
• Professor Natalie Trevaskis is a pharmaceutical scientist who is developing new drugs that are delivered to the body by the lymphatic system rather than the bloodstream.
• Toni Scullion is a computer science teacher who has started a girls’ coding club to enthuse girls about computer science.

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