AWIS-Chicago is thrilled to announce the 2020 Innovator & Motivator Awardees!

On November 18th, 2020 AWIS Chicago celebrated the winners of our 2020 Innovator & Motivator Awards!

Innovator Award (Early Career): Dr. Amanda Schalk, for her entrepreneurial trajectory that has resulted in groundbreaking work on an efficacious and safer humanized and deimmunized asparaginase that could expand treatment options in acute myeloid leukemia and certain tumors including pancreatic, ovarian, and liver cancer and glioblastoma
Innovator Award (Mid-Senior Career): Dr. Sossina Haile, for developing and advancing our fundamental understanding of technologically relevant materials for use in energy device research, which has carved out a new space in materials science and engineering
Motivator Award (Early Career): Dr. Bala Chaudhary, for demonstrating significant service, support, and mentorship of women to work towards racial equity in STEMM disciplines

We were joined by Dr. Holly Falk-Krzesinski, Vice President, Research Intelligence at Elsevier and co-author of Elsevier’s Gender report 2020: The Researcher Journey Through a Gender Lens. Dr. Falk-Krzesinski led a discussion of the report’s findings.