Kravis Women in Science Endeavor (WiSE) Symposium - July 8-20

Thanks to Michaela Reagan for this contribution! Please join us beginning July 8, 2020, for the inaugural Kravis Women in Science Endeavor (WiSE) Symposium, hosted virtually by Memorial Sloan Kettering. The symposium will feature lectures by leading biomedical scientists and is free and open to all. Kravis WiSE is a new initiative aimed at supporting female scientists and promoting gender equity at MSK and beyond. In future years, the Kravis WiSE Symposium will take place during March, Women’s History Month.  Kravis WiSE Symposium Speakers July 8, 2020, 4:30 PM ET Kravis WiSE Fellowship Winners Sahana Rao, Tri-I Chemical Biology PhD Program Linde Miles, PhD, Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program, MSK Mohita Tagore, PhD, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program, SKI • July 13, 2020, 4:30 PM ET Akiko Iwasaki, PhD Yale University School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Talk title: “Sex Differences in COVID-19 Immune Responses” • July 15, 2020, 4:30 PM ET Ashani Weeraratna, PhD Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Talk title: “A Wrinkle in TIME: How Age-Related Changes in the Tumor and Immune Microenvironment Drive Tumor Progression” • July 20, 2020, 4:30 PM ET Viviane Tabar, MD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Talk title: "Regional Specificity in Histone Mutant Brain Tumors"  All lectures will be broadcast live through MSK Science Spotlight and will last 45 minutes plus 15 minutes for Q&A. Kravis WiSE is made possible by a generous gift from Marie-Josée Kravis, Vice Chair of the MSK Board and Chair of the Sloan Kettering Institute Board, and Henry Kravis, Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive of KKR.