Past sfAWIS Events
- June 30, 2010
- June 9, 2010
- May 19, 2010
- April 28, 2010
- April 14, 2010
- March 6, 2010
- January 13, 2010
- November 11, 2009
- October 14, 2009
- September 16, 2009
- June 10, 2009
- May 13, 2009
- April 8,2009
- March 11, 2009
- February 11, 2009
- January 14, 2009
- October 8, 2008
- August 13, 2008
- June 11, 2008
- April 30, 2008
- March 1, 2008
- February 13, 2008
- October 10, 2007
- July 12, 2006
- May 15, 2006
- February 25, 2006
- October 26, 2005
- August 31, 2005
- June 22, 2005
- May 23, 2005
- February 26, 2005
- November 18, 2004
- September 30, 2004
- June 16, 2004
- April 14, 2004
- February 7, 2004
- December 10, 2003
- September 6, 2003
- September 3, 2003
- July 15, 2003
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Past Events
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- June 9, 2010
sfAWIS Networking Social
Another successful sfAWIS Networking event at Bissap Baobab in the Mission!
Good food, good conversation, and good company. We hope you'll join us for the next one!
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- April 14, 2010
sfAWIS Networking Social
This month, our networking social met at Little Baobab on 19th St., around the corner from our usual gathering spot on Mission. Another great night of networking, chatting, and delicious food!
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- March 6, 2010
NCC-AWIS Winter Workshop 2010
On Saturday, March 6, 2010, four great professionals in the field of coaching
joined us at Genentech in South San Francisco. Linda Bickham, Eric Nitzberg, Deb Kaufmann, and Amy
Gonzales
facilitated an exciting day-long workshop focused on public speaking. We practiced speaking
in front of one another, learning to speak in public with greater confidence and credibility.
Many thanks to our leaders for an engaging and eventful day!
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- January 13, 2010
sfAWIS Networking Social
Enjoying the Senegalese cuisine at our new location, Bissap Baobab in the
Mission District. Former national AWIS president Phoebe Leboy dropped by
to chat with us. There was no theme tonight---just enjoyable
conversation and networking!
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- November 11, 2009
An Overview of the Patent Process: From Conception To Issuance
Geri Rochino and Shelley Eberle, JD.
Prior to joining Mintz Levin, Geri Rochino served as a patent attorney at an intellectual property
law firm in East Palo Alto. Her practice included various technologies, including biotechnology,
medical devices, biosensors, drug delivery systems, and nanotechnology. She has
drafted patent applications, FTO opinion letters, prosecution history summaries and responses to
USPTO office actions.
Shelley Eberle currently holds the position of Senior Patent
Counsel with Theravance, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company in South San Francisco, and she is
responsible for the
preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the respiratory, hypertension, and pain
therapeutic areas. She has worked as a patent attorney in the government, corporate, and law firm
sectors for over 25 years.
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- October 14, 2009
sfAWIS Networking Social
Our first networking social at our new location, Bissap Baobab in the Mission District.
We talked, chatted, and networked---another great event!
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- May 13, 2009
Women's Global Health Imperative
Megan Dunbar, DrPH
Suneeta Krishnan, PhD
Megan Dunbar, DrPH, is a public health research scientist in the Women's Global
Health Imperative (WGHI) at RTI International. Dr. Dunbar spoke about her research
in designing and evaluating community-based interventions that address the social
and economic factors related to HIV vulnerability in Zimbabwe.
Suneeta
Krishnan, PhD, is an epidemiologist with the Women's Global Health
Imperative, RTI International, San Francisco. Dr. Krishan presented her research on
the mitigation of women's vulnerability to gender-based violence and adverse
reproductive and sexual health outcomes in India.
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- April 9, 2009
sfAWIS Networking Social
sfAWIS volunteers and associates with expertise in job placement discussed tools
for your job search. Topics we covered include writing better resumes,
effective networking approaches, and more.
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- March 11, 2009
sfAWIS Networking Social
Leadership was the topic at our bimonthly networking event. We shared leadership experiences, good
and bad, from our professional lives. We heard some valuable insights from leaders within
AWIS---as volunteers and board members, AWIS offers opportunities to exercise and develop
leadership skills.
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- February 11, 2009
Pragmatic Advice for Your Career: What you wanted to know but were afraid to ask!
Judy Heyboer, HR Consultant.
Judy has spent the last 30 years in Human Resources, primarily
in life science companies. She retired as Senior Vice President at Genentech in 2000, and has
devoted the last seven years to executive coaching, interventional HR, and non-profit work She is
passionate about mentoring, and creating corporate cultures where people can contribute to their
full potential.
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- January 14, 2009
sfAWIS Networking Social
At this networking event, we focused on teamwork. Those in
attendance, representing a variety of scientific backgrounds,
offered opinions and insights about working effectively in teams.
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- October 8, 2008
Stem Cells: Hype, Hope, and Reality
Ana Krtolica, PhD
StemLifeLine
Ana Krtolica co-founded StemLifeLine, a life-sciences company devoted to derivation and study of human embryonic stem cells (hESC) for drug development and therapy. Dr. Krtolica obtained her Ph.D. from University of Rochester, New York. During her post-doctoral research at the LBNL, Berkeley, California, she studied the role of aging and microenvironment in carcinogenesis and stem cell biology. As a career scientist at LBNL with joint appointment at the UCSF, she worked on one of the first serum-free hESC derivations on human feeders. Dr. Krtolica's other professional activities include teaching NIH courses at Buck Institute, Stanford University and the University of Pittsburgh. She frequently speaks and presents internationally, and is a member of the editorial board of Regenerative Medicine. She has published more than 20 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, multiple reviews and book chapters.
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- August 13, 2008
Non-Traditional Jobs
Presentation on Biotechnology and non-traditional science careers.
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- June 11, 2008
sfAWIS Working and Networking Workshop
This was the first annual volunteer driven networking event to
build connections while working to develop programs that have
meaning to our members.
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- April 30, 2008
NCC Awards Dinner
This was the 13th year of an annual event in which the Northern California chapters of AWIS gather together
to celebrate 3 outstanding women scientists, and students from across Northern California.
Several awards will be announced including:
- The Judith Pool Award
- The Ellen Weaver Award
- The Distinguished Professional Award
- Chapter Scholarships to students at local community colleges
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- March 1, 2008
The Importance of Precision Questioning
For Your Career Development
Monica Worline shared how we can enliven our careers and face adversity with courage,
compassion, and resilience. She demonstrated the importance of
Precision Questioning. Monica Worline, PhD,
is Assistant Professor of Organization & Management at Emory University's Goizueta Business School.
Her scholarship focuses on the ways in which organizations can enliven the people who work within them to
face adversity with courage, compassion, and resilience. Dr. Worline's work has been published in academic journals
such as Administrative Science Quarterly, The Journal of
Organizational Behavior, and Organization Science, as well
as featured in media such as the Chicago Tribune and BizEd Magazine. Dr. Worline received her Ph.D. in organizational
psychology from the University of Michigan and her undergraduate degree in English and Feminist Studies from Stanford
University. Prior to her academic career she became fascinated by organizations and their impact on people as an
entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. She is co-founder of Vervago.
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- February 13, 2008
Hidden and Not-so-Hidden Biases in Clinical Research
Lisa Bero, PhD
Dr Bero is a pharmacologist with primary interests in how clinical and basic sciences
are translated into clinical practice and health policy.
She described her research which included developing and validating methods for assessing the quality of research and
scientific publication and measuring influences on the quality of research. Dr. Bero gave us insight on how the dissemination
and policy implications of scientific research. She showed us studies on the roles of interest groups and financial ties in influencing
research and its dissemination.
She is well known for her research and co-authored The Cigarette Papers (UC Press, 1996) and share her international activities
which include: advisor to the World Health Organization, senior editor
for Tobacco Control, Co-Director of the San Francisco Branch of the
United States Cochrane Center, and editor for the Cochrane Effective
Practice and Organization of Care Group -- an international group of
researchers conducting meta-analyses of the literature on
interventions to change health professional behavior. She has also
been elected as a member of the Cochrane Collaboration Steering
Group and serves on several national and international committees
related to conflict of interest or technology assessment
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- October 10, 2007
Life Happens. Am I Prepared?
Edi Alvarez, CFP
Edi Alvarez is a Registered Investment Adviser and is
the principal for AIKAPA
Wealth Planning & Management that focuses on building a
financial structure to help professionals reach their goals.
She is also President of Process Per Se
a software workflow automation company for investment advisors in
the Bay area. Existing clients include Investment Advisors,
Financial Planners, Wealth Managers, Private Fund Managers, and
Financial Service supporting firms.
Alvarez was a Researcher
and Educator for many years before focusing her energies on building
financial structures to help professionals manage finances. Her
years of experience working within investment and biotech industries
have fostered a unique perspective on financial planning for
Scientists.
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- July 12, 2006
A Primate Studying Primates (and Other Things)
Co-presented by Amgen Women's Interactive Network
Nina G. Jablonski, Phd
On September 1, 2005, a description of the first chimpanzees to be
recognized in the fossil record was published in Nature, in a
co-authored paper by Sally McBrearty (University of Connecticut) and
Nina Jablonski. The fossils, from the Kapthurin Formation in Kenya,
show that representatives of chimpanzee (Pan) were present in the East
African Rift Valley during the Middle Pleistocene, where they were
contemporary with an extinct species of Homo. Habitats suitable for
both hominins and chimpanzees were clearly present there during this
period, and the Rift Valley did not present an impenetrable barrier to
chimpanzee occupation.
Nina Jablonski was born and raised in upstate New York and was
interested in natural history since early childhood. She completed an
A. B. at Bryn Mawr College in Biology (1975) and then went on to
complete a Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Washington
(1981). Her research focuses on primate and human evolution, in
particular, the role that changing environments have played in shaping
the adaptations of primates and humans through time. She enjoys the
study of important aspects of human evolution that are not recorded in
the fossil record, including the evolution of human skin and skin
color. Dr. Jablonski currently holds the post of Professor and Head of
Anthropology at The Pennsylvania State University and was most
recently the Irvine Chair and Curator of Anthropology at the
California Academy of Sciences. She is a Fellow of the California
Academy of Sciences and of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. In 2005, she was the recipient of one of
twelve Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship Awards in recognition of her
research on the evolution of human skin color.
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- May 15, 2006
Maring Cancer Project---Search for the Cause
Judi Shils and Linda Remy, MSW, PhD
May is Women's Health Month and sfAWIS took the opportunity to learn about a powerful example of partnership between scientists and activists in pursuit of a common cause. The Marin Cancer Project is currently partnering with the Macerich Company to contribute to our understanding of the relationship between different kinds of exposures and who does and does not get cancer. The results of this broad, unprecedented study promise to greatly benefit our understanding of how our day-to-day behaviors impact our long term health: what we eat, the work we do, and the products that we clean with, slather on our bodies and use in our gardens
Judi
Shils is the Executive Director of the The Marin Cancer
Project. Judi attended Temple University and the American University
in Washington D.C. She is an Emmy Award-winning network television
producer who started her career with ABC Sports in New York 25 years
ago. She produced the first critically acclaimed reality-based
television special "3,000 miles, 21 days, 10 cents" in 1987. Judi
resides in Marin with her teenage daughter, Erin.
Linda Remy, MSW, PhD, Research Director of the Family Health Outcomes Project
at the University of California, San Francisco, leads the Marin
Cancer Project research team. A person with a wide variety of
interests, Linda co-wrote two successful feature films. She was a
publicly elected Director of the Marin Healthcare District. Linda's
undergraduate degree is from New College of California and her
graduate degrees are from UC Berkeley.
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- February 25, 2006
NCC-AWIS Winter Workshop
Power Tools to Maximize Career Success
Gail Schechter, PhD, and Roberta Rosen
This event was the 9th annual NCC-AWIS Winter Workshop, hosted this
year by sfAWIS.
Gail Schechter is
passionate about promoting career development in science, medicine and
healthcare. She is a frequent speaker on professional advancement and
recently published a chapter describing her career in Alternative
Careers in Science. She transitioned to career coaching following more
than a decade as a research scientist at NIH, Stanford, and Genentech.
She is the President and Founder of BioIntelligence, a consulting group
specializing in science writing. She received a PhD in Psychology from
the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center.
Roberta Rosen is a certified Master Career Coach who brings her
varied experience in business, training, teaching, and psychology to her
coachingpractice. She studied at the Career Coach Institute and is
founder of a successful Career Coaching and Consulting Company. She
specializes in career discovery, job search, interviewpreparation, and
salary negotiation. Previously, she was an account manager, mentor,
and trainer at Hewlett Packard and IBM. In that capacity, she worked with
many private companies and governmentagencies in the San Francisco Bay
Area. She has been Supervisor of Teacher Training at Dartmouth
College.
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- October 26, 2005
From the Bench to the Board Room:
How I Learned to Love Suits and Writing
Cynthia Robbins-Roth, Phd
Co-sponsored by UCSF Women in Life Sciences
Dr
Robbins-Roth shared with AWIS attendees her unusual career path in
bioscience and her views of the current challenges for the biotechnology
industry. As the industry matures, drug development needs successful
projects and project management, including clear milestones for success
and effective go/no-go decisions on projects--rather than companies and
infrastructure built around single high-risk products. Robbins-Roth sees
an inherent conflict of interest between the government's need to feed
local economies with jobs and the public's need for affordable health
care products. At the same time, venture funding has become less willing
to support R&D for early stage targets and is focusing on shorter-term
profit opportunities.
As an alternative, Robbins-Roth points to
examples beyond the Bay Area in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia where
hybrid research models combine public and private funding and establish
clear project goals. She calls for a change in how and who funds
bioscience companies, getting away from huge early development costs for
quick potential payoffs and moving toward a longer-term view of leaner
sustainable growth and profitability. She anticipates this structural
change will come at a cost to small startups, but will benefit the
public long-term by reigning in exploding healthcare costs, and by
increasing the number of products that make it to the market place.
The
founder of BioVenture Publishing Inc and BioVentureConsultants,
Cynthia Robbins-Roth has been part of the biotechnology industry
since 1981. A frequent speaker on issues and events affecting the
industry, she combines a technical background with extensive experience
in the business and finance issues that drive this growing sector.
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- August 31, 2005
Idea to Clinic: The History of Raven Biotechnologies
Jennie Mather, Phd
Sponsored by Greiner Bio-One
When
someone asks Dr Jennie Mather what she does, her response is always
first what she is: a scientist, and then what she does: lead a company.
While a Staff Scientist at Genentech, Mather decided at age 50 that she
wasn?t going to die at an early age after all, as a number of her family
members had, and that she needed a big goal to last the rest of her
life. That goal has become Raven biotechnologies, the company she
founded. Mather?s own career spans from a beginning in basic academic
research in cell biology to applied research and product discovery at
Genentech. She advises other scientists, including women, to follow
their passion when choosing career steps and to follow their intuition
in making major career decisions.
With more than 30 years of
experience in cell culture and cell biology research, Jennie
Mather is a recognized leader in the application of cell biology to
technology and pharmaceutical product development. She has unusually
broad experience that spans basic research in cancer biology and
reproductive endocrinology. Prior to founding Raven, Dr. Mather was a
Staff Scientist for 15 years at Genentech, engaged in all phases of drug
discovery and development, from project conception through scale-up and
the development of potential new products. She is an inventor on 30
issued patents, the author of more than 150 publications, and the author
or editor of five books on animal cell culture. She is on the board of
directors of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, Healthcare
Businesswomen's Association, and BayBio; and serves on the scientific
advisory board of Springboard Enterprises as well as two bioscience
companies. Dr. Mather is the recipient of the first Innovator of the
Year Award from the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (2003) and was
named as one of the Top 10 Innovators for scientific and business
aptitude by Red Herring Magazine.
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- June 22, 2005
Create Your Own Mission Statement
from Your Personal Values
Tara Marchant and Catherina Houdek
It is always amazing how something
as straightforward as deciding what you believe in can help guide your
decision making. We were thrilled to have Tara Marchant and Catherine
Houdek guide us through the process of creating our own mission
statement from our personal values. We learned that powerful statements
(for example: I believe..., I will..., I celebrate..., I am committed
to..., etc.) combined with personal values (for example: freedom,
energy, integrity, honesty, trust, joy, etc.) should guide us in being
an active decision maker in both our personal and professional lives.
Tara
Marchant brings to her coaching practice 10 years of production and
leadership experience in start-ups, non-profits, hospitality, education
and the entertainment business. Born on the island of Oahu, it was a far
leap to the halls of Yale University, where she received her Liberal
Arts Degree. An enriching and diverse career in the entertainment world
as a performer, writer and producer satisfied her passion for creativity
and the human experience, which continues in her work today as a
professional and personal coach.
Catherine Houdek has worked in many different fields
including IT, project management, interior design and training and
development. She has worked with entrepreneurs, government departments,
small and large businesses. Her choice to have the majority of her focus
on coaching now allows her to live the lifestyle (particularly in
choosing how to spend each day) that she had always dreamed about. Her
love of people and having them succeed in whatever they choose to pursue
has led her to co-leading workshops like this.
Catherine and
Tara both base their coaching techniques on The Coaches Training
Institute's co-active approach.
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- May 23, 2005
Stem Cell Research: Will Prop 71 Mean New Approaches to Science?
Claire Pomery, MD, MBA
Co-sponsored by UCSF Women in Life Sciences
Dr. Pomeroy
brought to sfAWIS a timely update on the promises and problems in stem
cell research in California today. At this exciting time for Bay Area
biotechnology, scientists and policy makers like Pomeroy face thorny
political and ethical issues in carrying out Proposition 71 fairly and
effectively.
Dr. Pomeroy
brought to sfAWIS a timely update on the promises and problems in stem
cell research in California today. At this exciting time for Bay Area
biotechnology, scientists and policy makers like Pomeroy face thorny
political and ethical issues in carrying out Proposition 71 fairly and
effectively.
Pomeroy's advice to women scientists today is
nonetheless enthusiastic. Although her involvement in stem cell research
policy has brought some of the biggest challenges in her career as a
doctor and a dean, she also shared her excitement at being involved in a
pivotal project with such far implications for patient health and
scientific progress.
Claire Pomeroy is Vice Chancellor for Human Health
Sciences and Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of
California, Davis. She is also a member of the Independent Citizens
Oversight Committee, commissioned by California's recent Proposition 71
to oversee the distribution of $3 billion to support stem cell
research.
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- February 26, 2005
NCC-AWIS Winter Workshop: Powerful Non-Defensive Communication
Mady Shumofsky
Mady Shumofsky thrives on sharing her expertise in
effective communication. We learned about and practiced techniques to
deal with the attacking, blaming, withdrawing, justifying, surrendering,
and sabotaging that often accompany defensive communication
Mady Shumofsky has worked with numerous organizations
and individuals as a conflict mediator, meeting and retreat facilitator
and trainer for more than 25 years. She was trained by Sharon Ellison,
and is a member of the Consortium of PNDC Trainers. Mady also serves on
the Board of Directors of the Association for Dispute Resolution of
Northern California.
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- November 18, 2004
Saving Science from Extinction
Educators Discuss Science Careers in California Schools
Kimberly Tanner, Julie Strong, and Katy Korsmeyer
Co-sponsored by UCSF Women in Life Sciences
Kimberly Tanner, Julie Strong, and Katy
Korsmeyer are all PhD scientists whose careers have taken them from
the bench to the classroom. During their talk we learned that the
opportunities to volunteer or work professionally in science education
are widely available and deeply rewarding. Educating the "next
generation" bridges a critical gap in the public understanding of
science.
Tanner is an Assistant Professor of
Biology at San Francisco State University, Director of the Science
Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory (SEPAL), and is a
Principal Investigator in the National Science Foundation GK-12
Partnership Program. Strong is a teacher
in the Science Department at Menlo School, a private Bay Area school
serving grades 6-12. Korsmeyer is
Program Director of the Santa Clara County Biotechnology Education
Partnership (SCCBEP), is on the Department of Chemistry faculty at San
Jose State University, and is the Outreach Co-Chair for the Palo Alto
chapter of AWIS.
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- September 30, 2004
sfAWIS One-Year Anniversary Celebration
At sfAWIS's one-year anniversary event,
Susan Wheeler led attendees through an exploration of networking, both
theoretical and practical. Networking, she said,
means "giving or providing support." She set out three Golden
Rules for effective networking:
- Be prepared: carry business cards; dress the part; read up on a
speaker and send him or her a note in advance; wear your nametag on
the right so that, when shaking hands, people you meet can glance
down at your name and associate it with your face.
- Manage the
encounter: play the good hostess; remember names, but admit when you
forget; provide something of value, like a story or insight into a
problem; give others space to communicate, too, by asking open-ended
questions; end interactions gracefully; listen, listen, listen.
- Follow up: keep in touch within six months; send
thank yous; "pay-forward" by taking a client or colleague out to
lunch; don't overextend yourself by attending too many events or trying
too hard to "work the room," but focus on making the right connections
with people you do meet--these may eventually lead to more
introductions.
At the end of the workshop,
attendees tried out Wheeler's three rules on each other in groups of two
or three. The opportunity to practice networking in a room with great
food, good company, champagne, and dessert in celebration of sfAWIS'
first anniversary made for a friendly, excited, highly enjoyable
milieu.
Susan Wheeler has extensive background in creating,
launching and managing businesses. As a Principal with Pathfinder
Consulting Solutions, she works with senior managers to help them
re-focus on their most profitable markets. She helps emerging and
established companies identify, focus on and implement targeted business
strategies in highly competitive environments. She also specializes in
identifying operational improvements using value chain and gap analysis
and crafting strategic, business and marketing plans that focus on
specific and attainable goals.
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- June 16, 2004
Working with Difficult People
Susan Christy, Ph.D, CMC
"Are you like a carrot, an egg,
or coffee grounds when placed in hot water?" The carrot goes limp;
the egg becomes hard and inflexible; the coffee grounds mix and
dissolve, making the water aromatic. Susan Christy,
a PhD in Counseling Psychology and a Certified Management Consultant
(CMC), helped sfAWIS members find their way toward becoming "coffee
grounds": mixing well and living a metaphor of collaboration and problem
solving. The large audience participated in lively discussions and
role-playing, in many cases prompting examples of and solutions to
difficult work situations.
Susan Christy describes herself as a
consultant, coach, and trainer specializing in team building,
collaborative leadership, and customer service. She has worked with a
diversity of clients from small businesses to large firms, including
Bechtel, Hewlett-Packard, and UCSF.
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- April 14, 2004
Leading for a Change
Beata Lewis, JD
Not so long ago it
was news that women were leading in science. There is still a lot of
room for more women leaders in science, especially at the more senior
levels. What else matters besides numbers? Impact.
If you want essential changes in how men and women lead
scientific ventures, you are in the best of company. How will those
changes happen? Choices you make and actions you take. Are you ready
to lead for a change? Beata Lewis spoke to the
issues of impact and change, drawing particularly from her experience
coaching women leaders in science. She included an overview of the study
she conducted in 2003: The Feminine Face of Leadership in Science
as well as supportive findings from related studies about women as
leaders.
Beata Lewis, JD, provides focused coaching for highly
accomplished individuals and teams. As a Master Somatic Coach, Beata
applies a somatic orientation to whole-person leadership that integrates
mind, body, heart, and spirit for greater authenticity and power.
Clients develop awareness and implement practices to achieve tangible
and sustainable improvements in leadership, trust building and
collaboration. Coaching and consulting clients range from leaders in
bio-tech, pharmaceutical and high-tech companies, professional services
firms, boards of directors, non-profit and arts organizations, federal
and state agencies and entrepreneurs. In 2003 she conducted a study, The
Feminine Face of Leadership in Science, about women leaders in the
business of science. Combining leadership coaching with peer mentorship,
Beata also conducts Transformational Leadership Circles, or TLC for
Women Leaders
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- February 7, 2004
NCC-AWIS Winter Workshop: Negotiating for Success in Science
Helen Leah Conroy, Attorney-at-Law
Negotiation skills are
a necessity in today's complex business and academic environments. We
use these skills formally and informally to close deals, land a job or
promotion, improve communications, increase cooperation, and to garner
more resources. Participants in this annual workshop
came away better able to anticipate questions and discussion points, and
develop the best way to respond appropriately during negotiations;
assess points made by the other party, and offer alternative
counterproposals; develop term sheets to streamline the negotiation
process; deal with 'surprise negotiations; and determine when and how
most efficiently to bring counsel in.
Helen Leah Conroy is a lawyer who specializes in
structuring, negotiating, and drafting contracts for businesses that use
or create patented technology and copyrighted works. Ms. Conroy is a
frequent speaker on this subject to business and trade groups.
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- December 10, 2003
Communicating Science in the 21st Century
Vivian Siegel, PhD, and Lisa M. Krieger
After 13 years in bench research studying protein targeting
and developmental genetics, Vivian Siegel transitioned to a
remarkable career in science publishing. She has worked as a Senior
Editor, Deputy Editor, and then Editor at Cell, as well as Molecular
Cell and Developmental Cell, which she helped launch. She joined Public
Library of Science in January 2003. She holds degrees from Bowdoin
College in Biochemistry and Mathematics and a Ph.D. from UCSF in
Biochemistry and Biophysics.
As a
professional science journalist, Lisa Krieger< has covered issues
from stem cell policy to genome mapping. She was Medical Writer for The
San Francisco Examiner, covering health policy and clinical medicine,
and later joined the San Jose Mercury News as a Life Science Writer. She
was a National Association of Science Writers journalism fellow and was
awarded the Knight Journalism Fellowship at Berkeley to study
agriculture, biotech, and food policy. She holds a B.A. in Biology from
Duke University
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- September 6, 2003
Workplace Basics Workshop: Understanding the World of Work
Annual NCC-AWIS Workshop
NCC-AWIS and Women in Life
Sciences co-hosted the first in an annual series of workshops to provide
a comprehensive overview of workplace issues to assist scientists in
anticipating, navigating and evaluating the hidden rules of the
workplace. Participants benefited from seminars and panels from
experienced practitioners in the field.
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- September 3, 2003
Collaborative Research in Academia and Industry
Susanne Huttner, PhD
Dr. Huttner gave a great speech at the September 3rd sfAWIS
meeting-the first to follow our official recognition as an AWIS chapter.
Over 60 women from biotech and academia gathered at Genentech Hall at
UCSF's Mission Bay campus for the event. AWIS members and newcomers
networked over a buffet supper before the program. Then Melissa Boes,
sfAWIS President, enthusiastically kicked off the presentation: for her,
the exciting realization of nearly a year's work leading the 15 members
of the sfAWIS board to now-official status.
>Dr.
Huttner gave an overview of her unique career path, and described her
efforts to establish collaborative research programs between biotech
companies and UC labs. She set out an inspiring example to women in the
audience, emphasizing that there are many roads to fulfilling careers in
science. By word and example, Dr. Huttner left us with a poignant
message: Don't expect anyone to tell you you're doing the right thing as
you step forward; consider the opportunities before you a demonstration
of your success.
Susanne Huttner is the Associate Vice Provost for
Research, Major Research Initiatives and Industry-University
Partnerships in the University of California system, and is the
Executive Director of the Industry-University Cooperative Research
Program. She is responsible for creating and overseeing system-wide
research programs encompassing all the UC campuses and National
Laboratories. She manages a three-way partnership between UC, the State
of California, and industry sponsors to award hundreds of UC Discovery
Grants every year. She was previously Director of the UC system-wide
Biotechnology Research and Education Program and of the BioSTAR Project
(Industry-University Research Partnerships in Biotechnology). Dr.
Huttner has published widely on biotechnology and its impacts in the
public sector, and has won numerous awards for her work. She earned her
bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. from UCLA in
neurobiology.
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- July 15, 2003
Delivering the Promise of Medicine to the Developing World
Victoria Hale, PhD
Victoria Hale,
founder of the nation's first nonprofit pharmaceutical company, shared
the story of the career path that led her to tackle what still seems
impossible to many. Hale's vision, manifested in her
trailblazing company, the
Institute for OneWorld Health, has already led to clinical trials
seeking cures to widespread but under-funded diseases of the developing
world. Hale also shared insights into the power of
women to lead others and achieve significant change in the world of
science.
Victoria Hale established her expertise in all stages
of bio/pharmaceutical drug development at the US Food and Drug
Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (FDA), at
Genentech , Inc., the world's first biotechnology company, and as
Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Axiom BioMedical, Inc., a
pharmaceutical development and liability consultancy. She earned her PhD
in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of California, San
Francisco. She presently maintains an Adjunct Associate Professorship in
Biopharmaceutical Sciences at UCSF, is an Advisor to the WHO for
building ethical review capacity in the developing world, and has served
as an expert reviewer to the NIH on the topic of
biodiversity.
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