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.
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Bridget Dirrane
Irish nurse, centenarian and memoirist
Mary Crowley
Irish nurse and educator
Dr Mary-Claire King
Dr. King’s important discovery of the BRCA1 gene in 1990 transformed the medical world for breast cancer.
Sarah Higgins
New Zealand midwife, community leader and writer
Dr Barbara J McNeil
In 1988, Dr. Barbara J. McNeil was the founding head of the department of health care policy at Harvard Medical School.
Dr Anne Bishop McKusick
Anne McKusick, M.D., was part of a significant number of scientists involved in wartime research on the atomic bomb who abandoned physics to join the biomedical sciences.
Dr Anneliese Lotte Sitarz
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.
Dr Barbara Bates
In 1974, Dr. Barbara Bates developed and wrote a guide to patient history taking that has become the standard text for medical students.
Mary Cuddie
1800s New Zealand farmer, midwife and shopkeeper