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.
Headshot of Dr. Marie Egan
Dr. Egan is the director of the Cystic Fibrosis Center; the Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pediatrics and a professor of Pediatrics (Respiratory)...
Headshot of Dr. Serpil Erzurum, M.D.
Dr. Erzurum is Chair of the Lerner Research Institute at Cleveland Clinic. A physician-scientist, her groundbreaking translational research has uncovered...
Headshot of Dr. High
Katherine A. High is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. A renowned hematologist, her...
Headshot of Dr. Fitzhugh
Dr. Fitzhugh is a Lasker Clinical Research Scholar in the Laboratory of Early Sickle Mortality Prevention at NHLBI. Her research explores new avenues of...
Headshot of Dr. Veasey
Dr. Sigrid Veasey is a physician scientist and professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine and the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology at the...
Headshot of Dr. Martha Vaughn
Dr. Martha Vaughan is Scientist Emerita in the Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation at NHLBI and previously served as chief of NHLBI’s Laboratory of Cellular...
Headshot of Dr. Zee
Dr. Phyllis Zee is Director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Medicine and Chief of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg...
Headshot of Dr. Sally Wenzel
Dr. Sally Wenzel is director of the University of Pittsburgh Asthma Institute and a Professor of Medicine at the university. She is internationally recognized...
Headshot of Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz
Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz is director of the Women's Heart Center at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, where she is a professor of medicine. She is a pioneer in...
Headshot of Dr. Waterman
Dr. Waterman is an NIH Distinguished Investigator and Director of the Cell Biology and Physiology Center in the Division of Intramural Research at NHLBI. She...
Headshot of Dr. Nihal Altan-Bonnet
Dr. Nihal Altan-Bonnet is an investigator in the Laboratory of Host-Pathogen Dynamics at NHLBI. She discovered that disease-causing viruses spread between cells...
Headshot of Dr. Wagner
Dr. Wagner is currently the Edwin Cohn Professor of Pediatrics in the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine and the Division of Hematology/Oncology at...