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Our Bioinformatics Core Facility is planning a workshop for early this summer. To help them know what direction to go, please complete a short survey regarding your bioinformatics needs.
NIGMS Director's Early Career Investigator Lecture, "Drug Metab, Pharmacogenetics & Quest to Personalize HIV Tx & Prev" given by Dr. Namandjé N Bumpas on Weds, April 5, 2 to 3 pm. Lecture is to encourage undergrad students to pursue careers in biomed res. Send ?s to Dr. Bumpus by Weds, March 29.
Registration for SC EPSCoR/IDeA's free annual State Conf in Columbia on Tues, April 4 is now open. A funding opp to stimulate collaborative STEM research with an investment of $1.2M will be announced at conf.
Coinciding with the march in DC, there will be a March for Science at the SC State House on Sat, Apr 22, 10 am to 1 pm.
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation has an RFP with funding up to $600,000 for two years due Fri, March 17.
An MUSC Health patient has become 1st in U.S. to be treated with new cardiac ablation device.
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NEW! Asst Prof, Environ Health Svcs, Benedict. Apps reviewed in March and continue until position is filled.
Lecturer - Microbio, Clemson. Non-tenure track. PhD in Microbio or related. Start in Aug 2017.
Instructor - Lab Sci in Bio, Converse College. MS in Bio. Teaching duties. Start in Aug 2017.
NEW! Asst Dir of Res, Presbyterian. Tenure-track. Teaching duties.
Clinical Asst Prof, USC-Columbia, Pharm. Non-tenure track with teaching responsibilities.
NEW! Exec. Dir. Sponsored Prog and Res, Winthrop.
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Summer Res Opp at Presbyterian College Sch of Pharmacy. June 5-July 28. More info | App | flyer. App due March 13.
NEW! ARL Distinguished Postdoc Fellowships, Army Res Lab. App due May 1.
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For more deadlines and details, see the calendar page on the SC INBRE website.
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Women in Science: Celebrating Women's History Month |
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In 1987, after being petitioned by the National Women's History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of March as Women’s History Month.
Many women have made significant contributions to biomedical science:
- Barbara McClintock pioneered the study of genetics of maize (corn) cells. She was the first to determine that genes could move within and between chromosomes. Her work awarded her the Lasker Prize in 1981 and Nobel Prize in 1983.
- Dorothy Hodgkin spent most of her working life teaching chemistry and using X-ray crystallography, perfecting the the technique determining the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin, and was thus awarded the Nobel Prize in 1964.
- Although James Watson and Francis Crick are credited with discovering the double helix, they did so after Rosalind Franklin, molecular biologist, took the first X-ray image of DNA. This photo was subsequently used without her knowledge and was the crucial data source of Watson's and Crick's work.
- Gail Martin, biologist, discovered how to keep stem cells alive in a petri dish in 1974. In 1981, she found a way to isolate embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in-vitro.
- In 1983, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, virologist, identified that the cause of AIDS was the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
- Mary-Claire King, geneticist, began to study the DNA of families in 1974 and ultimately identified the genetic marker, Chromosome 17, which was found to be responsible for multiple inherited cancers and the foundation of the discovery of BRCA1.
Unlike the days of yesteryear where women had to fight for an education or to be heard as serious contributors in science, today's women in the biomedical sciences are proliferating and, in some fields, are the same number as men or greater. Today's women are empowered to go beyond where they could have a mere 100 years ago.
The National Institutes of Health provides support for women in science. Visit their Women in Biomedical Careers website for more information.
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