Dr Katalin Karikó
Nobel Prize winner Karikó’s research and perseverance proved that mRNA vaccines were possible and paved the way for the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to end the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Nobel Prize winner Karikó’s research and perseverance proved that mRNA vaccines were possible and paved the way for the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to end the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Irish nurse, centenarian and memoirist
Irish nurse and educator
Dr. King’s important discovery of the BRCA1 gene in 1990 transformed the medical world for breast cancer.
New Zealand midwife, community leader and writer
In 1988, Dr. Barbara J. McNeil was the founding head of the department of health care policy at Harvard Medical School.
During her forty-five years working with the Children’s Cancer Group (CCG) at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Anneliese Sitarz saw cancer survival in children surge from 1 percent to 80 percent.
In 1974, Dr. Barbara Bates developed and wrote a guide to patient history taking that has become the standard text for medical students.
1800s New Zealand farmer, midwife and shopkeeper
From her small-town beginnings, she eventually made her way to the nation’s capital, serving in a number of distinguished federal government positions at a time when few women held such posts.