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2024 Life Sciences Awardees
Suffrage Science celebrated 9 new awardees in the Life Sciences category on 7th March. The event took place in the Department of...
sarah-janescard
Mar 12, 20241 min read


Suffrage Science Awards Night 2020: Reflection and Action
A year like no other made for an unconventional Suffrage Science awards night. Two handovers of the scheme, which celebrates and inspires...
Katy Pallister
Nov 17, 20205 min read


Life Sciences 2020: Nomination Speeches
The 2018 Suffrage Science Awardees on why they have nominated the next recipients of their award. Professor Cathy Price of University...
Suffrage Science
Nov 10, 20204 min read


Awards 2020: Leading women in ‘life sciences’ and ‘mathematics & computing’ win award
Leading women scientists have been chosen by their peers to receive a prestigious award celebrating their achievements. The winners will...
Sophie Arthur
Nov 6, 20205 min read


Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Professor Gisou van der Goot
“I had zero exposure to science growing up” Professor Gisou van der Goot is a molecular biologist whose research group studies aspects of...
Sophie Arthur
Oct 23, 20205 min read


Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Dr Cécile Martinat
Dr Cécile Martinat, of the Institute for Stem Cell Therapy and Exploration of Monogenic Diseases (I-Stem), France, has been chosen to...
Sophie Arthur
Oct 16, 20203 min read


Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Professor Zena Werb
“They wouldn’t let me go [on the summer field trip] because I was female” – Werb, 2010 Professor Zena Werb was a world-renowned cell...
Sophie Arthur
Oct 9, 20205 min read


Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Professor Samantha ‘Mandy’ Joye
“Most people love to go swimming and such but I always loved stinky water” Professor Samantha ‘Mandy’ Joye is an internationally...
Sophie Arthur
Oct 2, 20205 min read


Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Professor Claudia Mazzà
"My maths teacher was always telling me ‘you should be an engineer’” Professor Claudia Mazzà is a bioengineer whose research focuses on...
Sophie Arthur
Sep 25, 20205 min read


Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Professor Karalyn Patterson
"Before I went to university, I had hoped for a career in music” Professor Karalyn Patterson is a pioneer of cognitive neuropsychology,...
Katy Pallister
Sep 18, 20205 min read


Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Associate Professor Laura Colgin
“When I was a teenager I wanted to start running some kind of experiment on my pet rat” Associate Professor Colgin is a neuroscientist...
Katy Pallister
Sep 11, 20205 min read


Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Dr Veronique Miron
“[Growing up] I certainly wasn't aware that there were any female scientists at all” Dr Veronique Miron is a senior lecturer and...
Katy Pallister
Sep 4, 20205 min read


Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Dr Kelly Nguyen
“I had a very good chemistry teacher who really got me hooked into science as a career” Dr Kelly Nguyen is a structural biologist who is...
Lauren Green
Aug 28, 20204 min read


Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Associate Professor Naomi Matsuura
“If someone said ‘Oh, this is going to be really hard to do,’ I knew I wanted to do it.” Associate Professor Matsuura is a medical...
Katy Pallister
Aug 21, 20205 min read


Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Professor Elspeth Garman
“I don't want a job because I'm a woman, I want a job because I'm the best person for the job.” Professor Garman is a renowned molecular...
Katy Pallister
Aug 14, 20205 min read


Life Sciences 2018: Suffrage Science Celebrates Fantastic Women In Science Today
Every two years 11 inspirational female scientists are recognised and celebrated through the Suffrage Science Life Sciences awards....
Suffrage Science
Jul 20, 20184 min read


Life Sciences 2018: Nomination and Acceptance Speeches
On the awards night, nomination and acceptance speeches were read out whilst the piece of heirloom jewellery was passed from the current...
Suffrage Science
Jun 7, 20186 min read


Life Sciences 2018: Leading Female Scientists Awarded Suffrage Science Heirlooms
Leading female scientists will be awarded scientific heirlooms by their peers at the fifth Suffrage Science awards for Life Sciences on...
Suffrage Science
Jun 6, 20182 min read


Life Sciences 2016: Artist Brings DNA Ribbons To Suffrage Science
The latest Suffrage Science artwork is complete, with a strong theme around ribbons, DNA and making connections. Marta Pinilla Martinez...
Suffrage Science
May 6, 20162 min read


Life Sciences 2016: Creating A Web Of Women In Science
It was one of the most striking moments of the evening, and it came in the acceptance speech of Dr Sally John, a Suffrage Science awardee...
Susan Watts
Mar 18, 20166 min read
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