LIFE SCIENCES 2024 AWARDS
Life Sciences
Dr Areej Abuhammad, University of Jordan, Jordan
Dr Prisca Liberali, FMI, Basel
Dr Frederique Magdinier, Marseille Medical Genetics, France
Dr Azahara Oliva, Cornell University
Prof Lynn Rochester, University of Newcastle
Dr Marta Shahbazi, MRC, LMB, Cambridge
Dr Monica Shokeen, Washington University School of Medicine
Prof Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, UCL Institute of Child Health, London
Prof Selina Wray, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London
On 8 October 2018, 11 scientists from across the UK will be presented with hand-crafted jewellery at the Suffrage Science awards ceremony held at the British Library, London. The awards celebrate women in maths and computing and encourage others to enter science and reach senior leadership roles...
Since 2009, the second Tuesday in October has marked Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths. It aims to increase the profile of women in STEM and create new role models for both girls and women studying or working in STEM... Read More
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Read the reasons for nomination of the Maths and Computing 2018 Suffrage Science Awardees here.
To celebrate 100 years of International Women’s Day in 2011, Suffrage Science unites the voices of leading female researchers in life science. Over the last century many more women have been able to pursue scientific careers than before. So why is a man still six times more likely to work in a science, engineering, or technology profession than a woman...
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Last year, eleven leading women life scientists and communicators were awarded a jewellery heirloom by the Medical Research Council as part of their Suffrage Science project, commemorating 100 years of women pioneers in life science. In receiving the heirloom, they understood that they had to pass it on to a younger woman in science, within a year, in a bid to encourage them to make their way to the top...
Women are no longer expected to abandon their careers to have a family. Society demands a level playing field for men and women, and yet there are still very few women in positions of scientific leadership. To this day, only one British woman – Dorothy Hodgkin – has won a Nobel Prize for science. The MRC Clinical Sciences Centre’s Suffrage Science scheme champions women in science, encouraging women to strive for leading roles in today’s scientific arena... Read More
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Read the reasons for nomination of the Life Sciences 2012 Suffrage Science Awardees here.
On 9th October, more than fifty leading women in the life sciences attended Suffrage Science 2014 at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre. The event is organised annually by the MRC’s Clinical Sciences Centre to commemorate, promote, and unite women across science and engineering. It is centred around the passing on of jewellery from one generation of leading women scientists to the next... Read More
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Women make up less than one-eighth of science academy membership globally, according to a survey reported in the science journal Nature last week. “It’s frustrating that the pace of change is so slow” says Helen Pankhurst, great-grandaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst. A unique awards ceremony to raise the number of women in senior leadership roles in science will take place today (Tuesday 8th March), International Women’s Day...
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 and vice president of computational biology and genomics at biotech company Biogen. Dr John told guests how colleagues reacted when she told them she was leaving academia for industry... Read More
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Read the reasons for nomination of the Life Sciences 2016 Suffrage Science Awardees here.
The latest Suffrage Science artwork is complete, with a strong theme around ribbons, DNA and making connections... Read More
Leading female scientists will be awarded scientific heirlooms by their peers at the fifth Suffrage Science awards for Life Sciences on 6th June 2018. A hundred years after the first women in Britain got the vote, women still only make up 23% of those working in core science, technology, engineering and mathematics occupations in the UK...
Every two years 11 inspirational female scientists are recognised and celebrated through the Suffrage Science Life Sciences awards. This year’s Life Sciences awards was held at the Academy of Medical Sciences and highlighted researchers from across the world with nominees from Australia, Israel, USA, UK, Denmark, France, Germany and from a variety of different career stages... Read More
Read the reasons for nomination of the Life Sciences 2018 Suffrage Science Awardees here.
The MRC Clinical Sciences Centre celebrates the achievements of leading female scientists at its annual event, Suffrage Science. Now in its third year, the event to be held on International Women’s Day (March 8th 2013) will honour 12 female scientists in the fields of engineering and the physical sciences, as applied to medicine...
The name Emmeline Pankhurst is synonymous with the campaign for women in the UK to gain the right to vote. Pankhurst and her fellow suffragettes rallied support for the suffrage movement at meetings held in tearooms across the country – then the only socially acceptable place for women to gather outside the home. Inspired by the suffragettes, on International Women’s Day (March 8th), Suffrage Science: 2013 celebrated the achievements of twelve leading female scientists in the tearoom of the Waldorf Hotel... Read More
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Is science pale, male and stale? Have we come a long way? Much has changed in the world of science since Marjory Stephenson and Kathleen Lonsdale became the first female Fellows of the Royal Society in 1945 – but is the situation for today’s women scientists better, worse or the same? We invited the audience to reflect on the issue of women in science at our annual Suffrage Science event on Sunday... Read More
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Read the reasons for nomination of the Engineering and Physical Sciences 2015 Suffrage Science Awardees here.
Twelve women will receive awards today, International Women’s Day 2017, to recognise their scientific achievements and ability to inspire others. Each has been nominated to “inherit” a piece of jewellery, designed and created by students at Central St Martins-UAL college of art and design. The MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (MRC LMS) initiated the awards scheme, known as Suffrage Science, in 2011...
Read the reasons for nomination of the Engineering and Physical Sciences 2017 Suffrage Science Awardees here.
Leading female scientists and engineers awarded scientific heirlooms by their peers at the fourth Engineering & Physical Sciences Suffrage Science Awards on 8 March 2019.With the core STEM employment sector increasing by 6.3% from 2017 to 2018 at more than 6 times that of overall employment in the UK, it is safe to say that the sector is fast growing. However, the percentage of women in core STEM occupations actually dropped from 23% in 2017 to 22% in 2018...
For more than 100 years, 8 March has marked International Women’s Day; an international celebration of the achievements of women and their fight for equality. There was no better way for us to celebrate this occasion this year than with our fourth Engineering & Physical Sciences Suffrage Science awards... Read More
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Get to know a little bit more about the 2019 Engineering & Physical Sciences Suffrage Science recipients and read some comments from their nominators here.
Leading women scientists have been chosen by their peers to receive a prestigious award celebrating their achievements. The winners will be honoured at an online celebration on Friday 6 November 2020. This will be the sixth Suffrage Science Awards for the Life Sciences and the third Suffrage Science Awards for Mathematics and Computing...
Find out more about this year's Maths and Computing Awardees in our series of interviews, here.
Read the reasons for nomination of the Maths and Computing 2020 Suffrage Science Awardees here.
A year like no other made for an unconventional Suffrage Science awards night. Two handovers of the scheme, which celebrates and inspires women in science, were marked in a virtual event with guests attending from the comfort of their home. The sixth ‘life sciences’ and third ‘maths and computing’ ceremonies may not have taken place in a grand venue, but the hopeful energy of the night transpired through everyone’s computer screens... Read More
Leading women scientists have been chosen by their peers to receive a prestigious award celebrating their achievements. The winners will be honoured at an online celebration on Monday 8 March 2021, the tenth anniversary of the scheme. This will be the fifth Suffrage Science awards for the Engineering and Physical Sciences...
Read the reasons for nomination of the Engineering and Physical Sciences 2021 Suffrage Science Awardees here.
On 8 March 2021, International Women’s Day, the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS) celebrated ten years of their flagship women in science scheme, Suffrage Science. The virtual awards ceremony hosted by Vivienne Parry, welcomed a further 12 Engineering and Physical Sciences awardees to the Suffrage Science family... Read More