Dr Sangeeta Bhatia

A biomedical researcher, MIT professor, and biotech entrepreneur, she has invented human microlivers to study drug metabolism and liver disease as well as nanoparticles that help diagnose, study, and treat ailments like cancer.

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Floy Agnes Lee

Lee’s biology research at the university led her to be recruited to work in the hematology lab for the Manhattan Project in 1945.

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Dr Maude Abbott

In 1936, Dr. Maude Abbott invented an international classification system for congenital heart disease, which became the definitive reference guide to the subject.

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Jean Taylor

Jean Taylor was generally described in her lifetime as an entomologist but, although that was the source of her expertise, perhaps today she might be considered to have been an applied biologist or bio-engineer.

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Freda Bage

Freda Bage OBE MSc FLS, was lecturer in charge of biology at the University of Queensland from 1913-1946, Principal of the Women’s College 1914-1946 and the first woman elected a Member of Senate 1923-1949.

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