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Nature's 10
''Nature'' 10 is an annual listicle of ten "people who mattered" in science, produced by the scientific journal ''Nature (journal), Nature''. Nominees have made a significant impact in science either for good or for bad. Reporters and editorial staff at ''Nature'' judge nominees to have had "a significant impact on the world, or their position in the world may have had an important impact on science". Short biographical profiles describe the people behind some of the year's most important discoveries and events. Alongside the ten, five "ones to watch" for the following year are also listed. 2022 2022 awardees included: # Jane Rigby (astrophysicist), Jane Rigby: Sky hunter # Yunlong Cao: COVID predictor # Saleemul Huq: Climate revolutionary # Svitlana Krakovska: Voice for Ukraine # Dimie Ogoina: Monkeypox watchman # Lisa McCorkell: Long-COVID advocate # Diana Greene Foster: Abortion fact-finder # António Guterres: Crisis diplomat # Muhammad Mohiuddin: Transplant trailblazer # A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Springer Nature
Springer Nature or the Springer Nature Group is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education. History The company originates from a number of journals and publishing houses, notably Springer-Verlag, which was founded in 1842 by Julius Springer in Berlin (the grandfather of Bernhard Springer who founded Springer Publishing in 1950 in New York), Nature Publishing Group which has published ''Nature (journal) , Nature'' since 1869, and Macmillan Education, which goes back to Macmillan Publishers founded in 1843. Springer Nature was formed in 2015 by the merger of Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan and Macmillan Education (held by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group) with Springer Science+Business Media (held by BC Partners). Plans for the merger were first announced on 15 January 2015. The transaction was concluded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Tyson
Anthony or Antony is a masculine given name, derived from the ''Antonii'', a ''gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton, a son of Heracles. Anthony is an English name that is in use in many countries. It has been among the top 100 most popular male baby names in the United States since the late 19th century and has been among the top 100 male baby names between 1998 and 2018 in many countries including Canada, Australia, England, Ireland and Scotland. Equivalents include ''Antonio'' in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Maltese; ''Αντώνιος'' in Greek; ''António'' or ''Antônio'' in Portuguese; ''Antoni'' in Catalan, Polish, and Slovene; ''Anton'' in Dutch, Galician, German, Icelandic, Romanian, Russian, and Scandinavian languages; ''Antoine'' in French; '' Antal'' in Hungarian; and ''Antun'' or '' Ante'' in Croatian. The usual abbreviated form is Ton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHO Hub For Pandemic And Epidemic Intelligence
The World Health Organization Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence was established by the Director-General of the World Health Organization and the former Chancellor of Germany in 2021 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Pandemic Hub is led by Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, who is Assistant Director-General, Division of Health Emergency Intelligence and Surveillance Systems at WHO. A new understanding of pandemic and epidemic risks The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated weaknesses around the world in how countries detect, monitor, and manage public health threats. The WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence (hereafter, Pandemic Hub) will support countries, regional and global actors to address future pandemic and epidemic risks with better access to data, better analytical capacities, and better tools and insights for decision making. The Pandemic Hub is embedded in WHO's Health Emergencies Programme and is based in Berlin, Germany. Building on expertise across disciplin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chikwe Ihekweazu
Chikwe Ihekweazu is a Nigerian epidemiologist, public health physician and World Health Organization’s Assistant Director-General for Health Emergency Intelligence and Surveillance Systems. Ihekweazu previously served as Director General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the agency responsible for protecting public health and safety through the control and prevention of communicable diseases in Nigeria. He was appointed to head the agency in August 2016 by President Muhammadu Buhari. Ihekweazu trained as an infectious disease epidemiologist and has worked in senior public health and leadership positions in several National Public Health Institutes, including The National Institute for Communicable Diseases South Africa (NICD), the UK's Health Protection Agency, and Germany's Robert Koch Institute (RKI). He has led several short-term engagements for World Health Organization WHO, mainly in response to major infectious disease outbreaks around the world. He was par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Woodcock
Janet Woodcock (born August 29, 1948) is an American physician and former Acting Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). She joined the FDA in 1986, and has held a number of senior leadership positions there, including terms as the Director of Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) from 1994 to 2004 and 2007 to 2021. Woodcock has overseen the modernization and streamlining of CDER and FDA, introducing new initiatives to improve the timeliness and transparency of FDA procedures, and the safety, quality and effectiveness of drugs. She informs the United States Congress and other government bodies about the FDA and its concerns, helping to develop policy recommendations and legislation. In 2015, Woodcock received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices in recognition of “a significant career history of making ongoing contributions to patient safety.” She has also received the 2019 Biotechnology Heritage Award. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meaghan Kall
Meaghan Kall is an epidemiologist at the UK Health Security Agency. In 2021 the journal ''Nature'' named her in ''Nature'''s 10, their global top ten list of people who helped shape science that year. Early life and education Kall grew up in a small, conservative town in Michigan. Kall completed a bachelor of science in nutrition science at Michigan State University and master of health science at Johns Hopkins University. She is completing her doctorate at University College London. Her doctoral thesis is ''National longitudinal survey of healthcare needs and risk behaviours of HIV positive people'' and is being supervised by Richard Gilson. Career She worked from 2009 to 2020 as a civil servant at Public Health England tracking HIV/AIDS. In 2020 she was drafted into the UK government's COVID-19 response. Her role was as a senior epidemiologist producing data within technical briefing documents and also communicating this information, including to the public. In 2021 she att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Cabanac
Guillaume may refer to: People * Guillaume (given name), the French equivalent of William * Guillaume (surname) Other uses * Guillaume (crater) See also * ''Chanson de Guillaume'', an 11th or 12th century poem * Guillaume affair, a Cold War espionage scandal that led to the resignation of West German Chancellor Willi Brandt * Saint-Guillaume (other) * Guillaumes, a French commune {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is a Filipino development consultant and an international indigenous activist of Kankana-ey Igorot ethnicity. As UN special rapporteur, she was tasked to investigate alleged violations of indigenous peoples rights and promote the implementation of international standards concerning the rights of indigenous peoples. She continued to hold her special rapporteur position until March 2020. She is the indigenous and gender adviser to the Third World Network, a member of United Nations Development Programme Civil Society Organizations Advisory Committee and a member of the World Future Council. She was the first recipient of the Gabriela Silang Award, conferred in 2009 by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples. Tauli-Corpuz has served as chairperson of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2005-2010) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jumper (AI Researcher)
John Michael Jumper is an American senior research scientist at DeepMind Technologies. Jumper and his colleagues created AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence (AI) model to predict protein structures from their amino acid sequence with high accuracy. Jumper has stated that the AlphaFold team plans to release 100 million protein structures. The scientific journal ''Nature'' included Jumper as one of the ten "people who mattered" in science in their annual listing of Nature's 10 in 2021. Education Jumper was educated at the University of Chicago where he was awarded a PhD in 2017 for research on using machine learning to simulate protein folding and dynamics, being co-supervised by Tobin R Sosnick and Karl Freed. Jumper also studied physics at the University of Cambridge, where he was on the Marshall Scholarship, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics from Vanderbilt University. Career and research Jumper's research investigates algorithms for protein st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tulio De Oliveira
Tulio de Oliveira is a Brazilian, Portuguese, and South African permanent resident professor of bioinformatics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and associate professor of global health at the University of Washington. He has studied outbreaks of chikungunya, dengue, hepatitis B and C, HIV, SARS-CoV-2, yellow fever and Zika. During the COVID-19 pandemic he led the team that confirmed the discovery of the Beta variant of the COVID-19 virus in 2020 and the Omicron variant in 2021. He gained fellowships to Oxford University, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and Edinburgh University, and in 2015 was appointed professor. In 2017, he founded the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) and in 2021 he founded the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), to sequence and trace epidemics. Early life De Oliveira was born in Brazil. He earned a bachelor of science degree from the Federal University of Rio Grand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timnit Gebru
Timnit Gebru ( am, ትምኒት ገብሩ; born 1983/1984) is an American computer scientist who works on algorithmic bias and data mining. She is an advocate for diversity in technology and co-founder of Black in AI, a community of Black researchers working in artificial intelligence (AI). She is the founder of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). In December 2020, Gebru was the center of a public controversy stemming from her abrupt and contentious departure from Google as technical co-lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team. Higher management had requested she withdraw an as-yet-unpublished paper or remove the names of all Google coauthors, and said that the paper ignored recent research. She requested insight into the decision, and warned that non-compliance would result in her negotiating her departure. Google terminated her employment immediately, stating they were accepting her resignation. Gebru has been recognized widely for her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Rongqiao
Zhang Rongqiao (; born March 1966) is a Chinese physicist and aerospace engineer who is the chief designer of Tianwen-1, China's first mission to Mars. Biography Zhang was born in the town of , Qimen County, Anhui, in March 1966. He secondary studied at Qimen No.1 High School. In 1982, he was accepted to Xidian University. In 1991, he graduated from China Academy of Space Technology. He received his EMBA degree from Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in 2002. Zhang joined the Beijing Institute of Satellite Information Engineering. In 2004, he was transferred to the Lunar Exploration Center of the Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, where he serves as the chief designer of Tianwen-1, China's first Mars probe. On May 30, 2021, he was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the China Association for Science and Technology The China Association for Science and Technology (CAST; ) is a mass organization of Chinese scie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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