Women in STEM

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, “Overcoming different barriers in drug discovery”, which covers three articles written for Volume 23, Issue 3 – Summer 2022 of DDW. They are called “Addressing the challenge of salt forms in drug discovery”, “A different approach: reimagining biology”, and “Women in Discovery: championing female […]

On 8 February 2023, this virtual session of the SciPro Women in Discovery roundtable will take place, the ‘Shine a Spotlight’ edition, covering a range of themes by a line-up of speakers. There are five speakers lined up, each with a different perspective on the industry, who will dive deeper into topics that resonate with […]

The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, has launched a pilot for its new Women in STEM leadership programme, which involves 15 large pharma companies that will support diversity in executive roles and advocate a fairer working culture with more equal opportunities.  The programme is aimed […]

In the Summer 2022 issue of DDW, Jessica Woodgate and Molly Edwards from life sciences recruitment company SciPro shared with DDW their ambition to champion female leaders across drug discovery through the founding of the Women in Discovery round table. Since then, the women-only environment has flourished but in the most recent instalment, men were […]

Jessica Woodgate and Molly Edwards head up the drug discovery and development space at SciPro, life sciences recruitment. They are also the founders of the Women in Discovery’ round table.  “SciPro is a specialist life sciences recruitment organisation covering the market from bench to bedside, working from preclinical drug discovery and development to commercialisation and […]

In this article exclusive to the Drug Discovery World app, Reece Armstrong speaks to Anca Ciobanu, Consultant and Strategic Theme Lead at the Pistoia Alliance about its Women in STEM pilot programme and some of the barriers women face for progressing through the life sciences sector. The article touches upon the goal of the programme, […]

The theme for International Women’s Day 2022 is ‘Break the Bias’, in which society is encouraged to celebrate women’s achievements, in turn raising awareness against bias and inspiring positive action for equality. Though the initiative is interdisciplinary, the drug discovery, life science and pharmaceutical world boasts many achievements of this nature. DDW’s Megan Thomas has […]