NHLBI Celebrates Women Scientists
In honor of Women’s History Month, the NHLBI will celebrate the accomplishments of women biomedical scientists who have played and are playing key roles in fighting heart, lung, blood, and sleep-related disorders. Check back throughout the month for additions to this impressive list.
Thressa “Terry” Stadtman, Ph.D., (1920 – 2016) was a trailblazing biochemist and former chief of the section on intermediary metabolism and bioenergetics in...
Cardiac surgery seemed like the next big frontier to the late Nina Starr Braunwald, M.D., who would later become the first woman to become a cardiac surgeon...
For nearly 20 years, Julie Panepinto, M.D., MSPH, has been involved in chronic disease research and caring for children with sickle cell disease, a painful...
When the United States implemented nationwide "stay-at-home" orders last year amid a worsening pandemic, so did research laboratories around the world. Projects...
As a pediatric cardiologist, Gail Pearson, M.D., Sc.D., faces heart disease where most people least expect to find it—in the very young and most vulnerable. As...
When Sara Lin, Ph.D., was a doctoral student studying developmental biology, she shadowed doctors in a neonatal intensive care unit and quickly became...
When Dina Paltoo, Ph.D., M.P.H., joined the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in March 2020, she was eager to use her years of extensive...
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NYU Langone
As a cardiologist, Judith Hochman, M.D., M.A., could see first-hand the havoc COVID-19 was wreaking among patients with cardiovascular disease. Very early on...
Ileana Piña, M.D., a Board-certified heart failure transplant cardiologist, is a clinical p rofessor of medicine at Central Michigan University and adjunct...
When she was just 7, Amanda Jamieson, Ph.D., loved peering at pond water samples under a microscope. Over the years, her fascination with living systems only...
At the start of coronavirus pandemic, when New Yorkers were cheering in the streets for the cleaning staffs at city hospitals, Madeline Sterling, M.D., M.P.H...
For nearly 20 years Kathleen Fenton, M.D., a pioneering pediatric cardiac surgeon, taught students and medical residents, ran a research laboratory, and worked...