From Lab to Life: Spare Parts for People

Last Sunday, March 8, was International Women’s Day – a day when we celebrate the achievements of amazing women and their successful struggle for equality with men – a struggle that is, alas, ongoing.  Women are still paid substantially less than men for equal work.

Here is a stellar example of what brilliant creative women can do – Professor Shulamit Levenberg, former dean of Biomedical Engineering at my university, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and head of the Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory.

Prof. Levenberg is an Orthodox Jewish woman who has six children and two grandchildren.  Her research has done amazing feats.  She has shown how to repair ailing hearts with injections of stem cells, cracking the key problem of ‘vascularization’ (providing the stem cells with a supply of blood). ........

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