What's Her Name?

She is an Indian infertility specialist. She pioneered the Gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) technique. In GIFT, eggs are collected from the ovaries, placed in a test tube along with the sperm then both injected into the fallopian tube.

She is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. She is recognized for her study of the mathematical methods that enhance image-compression technology.

She is a British physiologist whose early research efforts were focused on obesity, cachexia, and energy balance regulation. Her current research focuses on the role of inflammation in brain disease.

She is an American chemist who has worked extensively to study how viruses can bind to sugars, known as glycobiology. This highlights the interactions of sugar within the body and diseases such as arthritis, tuberculosis and cancer.

She is a Japanese astronomer who was the first to discover a dense disk of material around a newborn star. Her discovery may shed light on how our solar system was formed.

She is an Australian biogeographer. Her studies focus on ecology, evolution, climate change, and how they are all significant to the southern hemisphere, specifically at higher latitudes such as Antarctica.

She is a Nigerian professor, chemist, and inventor. She developed microelectrode biosensors sensitive to trace amounts of organic materials. This technology can be used for drug and bomb detection.

She is an American biochemist. She, along with her colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier, was the first to suggest that genes could be edited or reprogrammed. This is considered one of the most impactful discoveries ever in the field of biology.