Top 7 Women Leaders in Lifesciences Today
Top 7 Women Leaders in Lifesciences Today By The Lifesciences Magazine INTRODUCTION Women Leaders in Lifesciences Today have achieved enormous strides in science and medicine throughout history, and we are better off for it. Two well-known examples are the contributions of Rosalind Franklin to our knowledge of the molecular structures of DNA and Marie Curie’s discovery of radium, which paved the way for the x-ray. What, though, of the women who are driving today’s revolutionary changes in the life sciences? In fields ranging from epidemiology to CRISPR, forward-thinking women scientists are breaking new ground and shaping the future of medicine. In addition, there is a steady emergence of exceptional female executives in the most prominent areas of the life sciences, with some taking the helm at Fortune 500 biotechs and others starting up ground-breaking startups. However, they are all making headway on some of the most pressing issues and possibilities in the biological sciences today...