Partner Program: Achieving Gender Equality in the Life Science World: From Compensation to Career Opportunities in Industry and Academia

Thursday, June 23, 2022

11:30 AM – 12:45 PM PT

Location: Salons 12/13

Sponsored By

Speaker(s)

Katherine Vega Stultz

President & CEO
Ocelot Bio
San Diego, California, United States

Co-Chair(s)

Elaine F. Reed, PhD

Professor
UCLA
Los Angeles, California, United States
Megan Sykes, MD

Michael J. Friedlander Professor of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Surgic
Columbia University
New York, New York, United States

Panelist(s)

Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD

President & CEO
Sonoma Bio
San Francisco, California, United States
Terri Laufer, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Gerold Nepom, MD, PhD

Director, Immune Tolerance Network; Member
Benaroya Research Institute
Seattle, Washington, United States
Maria-Grazia Roncarolo, MD

Professor
Stanford University
Stanford, California, United States

Description:
Since 2019, the annual FOCIS Women in Clinical Immunology (WICI) session (formerly known as Women@FOCIS) has brought together women working in different areas of immunology, academia, and industry. This event is designed to celebrate women in immunology, connect trainees and young investigators with female leaders in the translational immunology community, and share inspiration on personal and professional development. WICI is pleased to partner with the TTS Women in Transplantation (WIT) group to present this annual jointly organized session at the FOCIS 2022 Annual Meeting on Thursday, June 23, 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM PT.

The session, co-chaired by Elaine Reed, PhD and Megan Sykes, MD, is entitled Achieving Gender Equality in the Life Science World: From Compensation to Career Opportunities in Industry and Academia. The format will be a 30 to a 35-minute presentation by Katherine Vega Stultz, President and CEO, Ocelot Bio, followed by a 25 to a 30-minute panel discussion. Panelists include Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD, Terri Laufer, MD, Gerald T. Nepom, MD, PhD, and Maria-Grazia Roncarolo, MD, who will lead and facilitate discussion from their perspective as leaders in immunology, either in an academic or industry setting, and who will contribute their professional and life experience working in the field to the important discussion of what can be done to alleviate challenges and issues faced by women in the workplace.

Please join us for a robust dialog and networking environment as we celebrate women in science and female leadership across the breadth of translational immunology.

Program Agenda:
11:30 am - Welcome, Introductions, and Session Overview
11:40 am - Keynote Presentation
12:15 pm - Panel Discussion
12:40 pm - Closing Remarks
12:45 pm - Adjourn Session