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Women in Health Sciences: Conflict Management for Career Advancement in Academia Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, 5 - 7:30 p.m. Seasons 52, UTC Deadline to RSVP: Nov. 12, 2024 eventbrite.com/e/wihs-fall-20…


What remains to be said of the scientific icon Marie Curie? In the book The Elements of Marie Curie, Dava Sobel "offers a vivid narrative that uses Curie’s well-known story as scaffolding for tales of the brilliant young women who trained in her lab and became part of her…

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Meet Pink Ribbon Initiative! 💗 A student service organization that aims to provide knowledge, aid, and awareness to one of the most common diseases amongst women worldwide: breast cancer. #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth #UCSD #UCSanDiego

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UC San Diego Women in Health Sciences (WiHS) Reposted

In celebration of #WomensHealthWeek, @Nature has a special series dedicated to sex and gender research. Check out the commentary that I wrote with Art Arnold, Peg McCarthy, and @JeffreyMogil about the importance of #sexdifferences in biomedical research. nature.com/immersive/sex-…


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Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, and across all #science disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary.. 🧵 cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

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UC San Diego Women in Health Sciences (WiHS) Reposted

Celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth2024 The @UofCalifornia has sent more women to space, including @UCSanDiego Biological Sciences alumna @Astro_Kate7, than any other school in the solar system. Read more about them... universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-has-se… @NASA


UC San Diego Women in Health Sciences (WiHS) Reposted

Too few women are submitting research to Nature as corresponding authors. This week’s editorial looks at the data behind the unacceptably low numbers of papers from women senior authors in Nature #womeninSTEM nature.com/articles/d4158…


Inspiring women in science

Meet the shortlisted candidates for the 2023 Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science



Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance. nature.com/articles/d4158…


UC San Diego Women in Health Sciences (WiHS) Reposted

Thank you @malas_mahmoud ! Excited to continue to develop this work into effective AI implementation strategies and a multi center randomized trial @UCSDHealth & @StanfordHealth Appreciate the vast support for this work in the Division all the way up to School of Medicine 🫶🏾🙌🏾🥳

Super proud of Dr. Elsie Ross @tyingwithpolish Associate Professor of Vascular Surgery In-Residence @UCSDsurgery for securing funding of her R-01 using #Al for early Detection of Peripheral Artery Disease (AID-PAD)

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Congrats to professor of pediatrics at @radychildrens and @UCSDCancer, Paula Aristizabal, MD,  MAS on her recent $4M Research Project Grant from @NIH and @theNCI for a pilot program to improve diverse participation in pediatric cancer clinical trials! buff.ly/3LUcl6Q

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Congratulations to our women faculty!

Congratulations to 2023 Health Sciences Faculty Excellence in Mentoring awardees: Drs. Afshari, LaCoursiere, & Gianella! Join us in celebrating these extraordinary mentors and their dedication to inclusive mentorship on Nov. 2 @ 5 pm! RSVP now here —go.ucsd.edu/3PDgmNO

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UC San Diego Women in Health Sciences (WiHS) Reposted

A team led by @UCSDMedSchool professor Louise Laurent is included in a $50.3 million @NIH initiative to advance the use of “multi-omic” data for human health research #DiseaseResearch #Genomics Read more @ #UCSD_HSblog: go.ucsd.edu/3ZFsfYk

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Out today in @NatureNeuro: @TeleseFrancesca, @GrahamMcVicker and colleagues describe a potential new treatment for #CocaineAddiction, which they identified using a cellular atlas of the #amygdala in rats. #neuroscience #addiction #brain go.ucsd.edu/3PL1pcx


Congratulations to Dr. Karikó #NobelPrize

“Ten years ago I was kicked out and forced to retire.” Our new medicine laureate Katalin Karikó (@kkariko) told us how much it means to be awarded the Nobel Prize after a scientific career that has been full of challenges. Ten years ago, Karikó was still doing all her…



UC San Diego Women in Health Sciences (WiHS) Reposted

a short academic (made me) #feelgoodstory 🧵1/8 the talented scientist at center is Saghar Kaabinejadian PharmD PhD—who back in 2010 visiting La Jolla from her native Iran—came to my office for an impromptu intro set up by her relative who knew my lab manager Samira’s husband

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🚨Job Alert x2! Two assistant prof searches at UCSD Psych: 1. Computational approaches to understanding behavior and/or its neural mechanisms. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684 2. Social psych, broadly defined. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03683 Apply for either (or both?) by November 7th!


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This September, we’re recognizing all the women physicians, residents, and med students working to make health care more equitable. 💙 Meet two School of Medicine and @UCSDHealth @UCSD_ObGyn physicians as they share their journeys in medicine and advice to the next generation.


Our Fall event was a success! Vice Chancellor @UCSDHealthSci Dr. Carethers and Ass. Vice Chancellor @UCSDfacaffairs Dr. Trejo @joann_trejo shared their vision for closing the gender gap. Main domains of gender inequality: salary, leadership, and career development #WomenInSTEM

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A U.N. agency examined maternal health of Black women across the Americas for the first time. The head of the agency behind the report offered her findings: “The result is horrendous.”nyti.ms/43sxjzv by @Emily_Baumhttps://nyti.ms/43sxjzv by @farnazfassihi


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