Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females

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Named to 2016 Disruptor 50 Companies. Award went to Humacyte, Inc., of which Niklason is the founder. [27] Executive Voice: Her Durham firm pioneers transformation of medicine". www.bizjournals.com . Retrieved September 21, 2021. Born in 1912 in Wellington, New Zealand, as the youngest of six children, Nancy Wake worked as a nurse and a journalist before moving to Paris in 1930. As a European correspondent for Hearst newspapers, she witnessed the rise of Adolf Hitler and the violence against Jewish people in the streets of Vienna. Although Cynane never reached Babylon, her power play proved successful. The Macedonian soldiers were angered at Alcetas’ killing of Cynane, especially as she was directly related to their beloved Alexander.

However, after being overawed by the sight of Alexander the Great’s mother, the hired killers did not go through with the task. Yet this only temporarily prolonged Olympias’ life as relatives of her past victims soon murdered her in revenge. 7. Queen Teuta (fl. 229 BC) The partnership between Jennifer Doudna, Californian biochemist and French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier has led to the discovery of a ground-breaking gene engineering tool known as CRISPR-Cas9. The two women met at a conference in Puerto Rico where they experienced an “electrifying’ moment where they realised that what they were working on, the mysterious Cas9 enzyme, was something really special. After years of collaboration, their work showed that CRISPR-Cas9 could be used to edit bacterial DNA, which has the potential to eradicate previously incurable diseases, such as those caused by genetics and rare mutations. The technology gives scientists the power to remove or add genetic material. Sandra Rivera – Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Datacenter and AI Group at Intel Corporation. Rivera leads Intel’s data center products, and she also drives the company’s overall artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and product roadmap. Congratulations to this year’s Fiercest Women in Life Sciences. It is an absolute honor to be included in this awe-inspiring list, with leaders who are courageously changing the healthcare landscape. I hope that soon, I will be able to welcome one of my mentees here as well.Of all the valiant ladies who have graced the screen, selecting the very fiercest is a tough job. The list of fourteen below, while not exhaustive, represents a diverse spectrum—women of various ages, settings, classes and personalities. Petersen, T.H., Calle, E.A., Zhao, L., Lee, E.J., Gui, L., Raredon, M.B., Gavrilov, K., Yi, T., Zhuang, Z.W., Breuer, C., Herzog, E., Niklason, L.E. " Tissue-Engineered Lungs for In Vivo Implantation," Science, (2010), 329, 5991; 538–41. Lady Fu Hao was one of the 60 wives of Emperor Wu Ding of ancient China’s Shang Dynasty. She broke with tradition by serving as both a high priestess and military general. According to inscriptions on oracle bones from the time, Fu Hao led many military campaigns, commanded 13,000 soldiers and was considered the most powerful military leaders of her time. Two hundred sixty-one people served in the regiment, and 23 were awarded Hero of the Soviet Union. Two of them were awarded Hero of the Russian Federation, and one of them was awarded Hero of Kazakhstan.

Chinese historical sources make no mention of Triệu Thị Trinh, yet for the Vietnamese, Lady Triệu is the most important historical figure of her time. 10. Zenobia (240 – c. 275 AD) Maxine Moreau – President of Mass Markets for Lumen. Moreau’s role includes all aspects of Lumen’s consumer and small business strategy, go-to-market and customer experience. In 358 BC Olympias’ uncle, the Molossian King Arrybas, married Olympias to King Philip II of Macedonia to secure the strongest possible alliance. She gave birth to Alexander the Great two years later in 356 BC.Nina Tandon is an American biomedical engineer who is co-founder and CEO of the world’s first company that grows living human bones for skeletal reconstruction – EpiBone. After choosing to specialise in biomedical engineering, Tandon began her work on using stem cells and electrical signals to help patients ‘grow their own bone’ in cases where they have suffered serious injuries and need a bone graft to replace missing pieces of bone. Modern archaeological evidence supports the fact that many Scythian warriors were women and that warrior women in this culture were no exception but rather the norm. As many as a third of all women in Scythian culture were warriors.