Ep9 - The Inspiring Story of Barbara McClintock

Posted on Tuesday, Jul 7, 2020
In our first “Profiles of Scientific Genius” series, we discuss the inspiring story of Dr. Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), the first woman to have received a solo Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Achieving success against all odds, her story will make you believe. Dr. Sabah Kadri and Arshi Arora peek into her childhood, her support system, the odds she faced when she wanted to research in genetics at a time that women were not accepted into that department, and her eventual triumph in the field.

Show Notes

Link to National Academy of Science: http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/mcclintock-barbara.pdf

Research Review: https://www.pnas.org/content/109/50/20198

Hosts

Arshi Arora

Arshi Arora

Arshi Arora is a Research Biostatistician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She holds a double Masters of Science degree in Computational Biology and Biostatistics from Carnegie Mellon and Columbia University respectively. Her interests lie in creating elegant solutions to biological and clinical questions via simple yet compelling statistical models. She is a minimalist and follows an intense recycling waste regimen.

Sabah Kadri, PhD

Sabah Kadri, PhD

Dr. Sabah Kadri has a background in Computer Engineering with a PhD in Computational Biology from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Kadri leads a team of bioinformaticians and scientists to design, develop and implement cloud-based computational infrastructure and containerized bioinformatics software in clinical diagnostic services for germline and somatic next generation sequencing (NGS) testing. She has experience building clinical diagnostics pipelines and systems for adult and pediatric diseases and continues to work on informatics solutions and research questions for translational ‘omics’ and biomedical research to promote personalized medicine.

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