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“Not Where You’d Expect” says Freda Lewis-Hall at TEDMED
No, it’s not a Jeopardy-style question but rather is the answer to the question posed by Pfizer’s EVP and Chief Medical Officer, Freda Lewis-Hall, M.D., when she spoke last October at TEDMED. The question was “Where Will the Next Medical Breakthroughs Come From?” Lewis-Hall stressed the need to define and use new models of collaboration ... -
Breakthroughs in the Biology of Aging
There is a lot we know about aging. But it’s what we don’t know that will keep gerontologists occupied for a long time to come. The study of aging and its biological, social and psychological determinants are of great importance to Pfizer. Our healthy aging platform focuses on a “life course” approach to health in ... -
An Oft-Forgotten Cardiovascular Disease
With our recent focus on non communicable and chronic disease I was reminded of a neglected inherited chronic disease that has no cure and has often been neglected, namely. I recently attended the award ceremony for the Royal Society Pfizer Prize in London. This year’s winner was Dr. Julie Makani form Tanzania for her breakthrough ... -
An LGBT Pride Month Special Feature – Jim Pollack
In celebration of Lesbian Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, Think Science Now highlights the contributions of some notable LGBT scientists. Jim Pollack (1938- 1994) was an astrophysicist at NASA’s Ames Research Center and expert in planetary atmospheric science. Together with Carl Sagan he demonstrated that the seasonal color variations on mars were the ... -
An LGBT Pride Month Special Feature – Bruce Voeller
In celebration of Lesbian Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, Think Science Now highlights the contributions of some notable LGBT scientists. Bruce Voeller (1934-1994) was a biologist and professor at the Rockefeller Institute. He was director of the National Gay Task Force, which he helped found. He was one of the earliest researchers into ... -
An LGBT Pride Month Special Feature – Alan Cox
In celebration of Lesbian Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, Think Science Now highlights the contributions of some notable LGBT scientists. Alan Cox (1926-1987) was a geophysicist whose work led to the discovery that the earth’s magnetic field reverses through history, a finding now recognized as reverse polarity. He was a professor at Stanford ... -
An LGBT Pride Month Special Feature – Clyde Wahrhaftig
In celebration of Lesbian Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, Think Science Now highlights the contributions of some notable LGBT scientists. Clyde Wahrhaftig (1919 – 1994) was a geologist and environmentalist whose work focused on the Geomorphology of California and Alaska. He took a leading role in orienting the application of geological science to ... -
An LGBT Pride Month Special Feature – Alan Turing
In celebration of Lesbian Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, Think Science Now highlights the contributions of some notable LGBT scientists. Alan Turing (1912-1954) was an English mathematician who is generally credited with creating the framework for the earliest computer. He led the code breaking (cryptanalysis) effort at Bletchley Park during World War II ... -
An LGBT Pride Month Special Feature – Alexander von Humboldt
In celebration of Lesbian Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, Think Science Now highlights the contributions of some notable LGBT scientists. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a Prussian naturalist, botanist and geographer. He was also an explorer who brought scientific discipline to his travels in Europe and North and South America. The reports of ... -
An LGBT Pride Month Special Feature – Margaret Mead
In celebration of Lesbian Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, Think Science Now highlights the contributions of some notable LGBT scientists. Margaret Mead (1901-1978) was an anthropologist and psychologist and curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Her work proposed that an individual’s sexual identity can evolve throughout ...