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WPSS hosts Women in Science Panel for International Women's Day #IWD2024

Women in Science: Moving Forward in Academic Science, Engineering, and Medicine

WPSS members among new UCSF K08 awardees: 2023

Congrats to WPSS members on new K08 awards in 2023 (updated 10/3/2023) Nancy Allen (Medicine/Pulm-CritCare) Courtney Lane-Donovan (Neurology)

Congrats to WPSS members on new R01s and R01-equivalents in 2023!

Congrats to WPSS members on new R01s in 2023!  (updated 10/3/2023) Katrina Abuabara (Dermatology) Joanne Engel (Medicine/ID)

Congrats to Christina Homer, MD, PhD on HHMI Hanna Gray Fellowship!

Congratulations to Christina Homer, MD PhD   https://www.hhmi.org/news/hhmi-awards-hanna-gray-fellowships-25-early-career-scientists

Elizabeth Crouch, MD PhD named 2023 recipient of BWF Next Generation Pregnancy Initiative Award

Congratulations to Elizabeth Crouch, MD PhD selected as a recipient of the 2023 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Next Generation Pregnancy Initiative Award!! See the announcement here --> https://www.bwfund.org/news/bwf-announces-2023-next-generation-pregnancy-initiative-award-recipients/

Drs. Claire Clelland and Minnie Sarwal are both 2023 Catalyst Awardees! ​

Congrats to Drs. Claire Clelland (Neurology) and Minnie Sarwal (Surgery)---- 2023 Catalyst Awardees!  Claire Clelland, MD, PhD - CRISPR Gene Therapy for Neurodegenerative Disease: Target Gene Correction for ALS  

Happy New Year 2023: WPSS 2022 Year in Review

check out our 2021-2022 Year in Review! congrats WPSS 

Dr. Julie Ann Sosa receives UCSF Chancellor's Award for Advancement of Women

Julie Ann Sosa, MD has been selected for the UCSF 2022 Chancellor's Award for Advancement of Women. Make sure to see her story here. Congrats Dr. Sosa!

Mercedes Paredes, MD PhD receives CZI Science Diversity Leadership Award

Dr. Mercedes Paredes has been awarded a Science Diversity Leadership Award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). These selective awards "will recognize the leadership and scientific accomplishments of outstanding early- to mid-career researchers at U.S.

Tippi MacKenzie, MD elected to National Academy of Medicine (NAM) 2022 class

Congrats to Tippi MacKenzie, MD, elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), recognizing “her seminal contributions to the field of fetal medicine by pioneering novel in utero molecular therapies for fetuses with