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Two UC San Diego Scientists Elected to National Academy of Medicine

Left: JoAnn Trejo, PhD, is professor in the Department of Pharmacology at UC San Diego School of Medicine and assistant vice chancellor for UC San Diego Health Sciences Faculty Affairs. Right: Elizabeth Winzeler, PhD, is professor in the Division of Host Microbe Systems and Therapeutics in the Department of Pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine and adjunct professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC San Diego.

Leaders in cell biology and anti-malarial drug development respectively, JoAnn Trejo and Elizabeth Winzeler were recognized by their peers with one of the highest honors in health and medicine.

Trejo is known for discovering how cellular responses are regulated by molecules known as G protein-coupled receptors, particularly in the context of vascular inflammation and cancer. Her findings have advanced the fundamental knowledge of cell biology and helped identify new targets for drug development. Trejo’s research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including a recent NIH R35 Outstanding Investigator Award.

Winzeler is known for her early contribution to the field of functional genomics, where she worked primarily in the model yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Concerned about global health disparities and the alarming rise in the number of worldwide malaria cases in the early 2000s, she shifted her research focus to malaria, beginning with functional genomics and then moving to drug discovery.

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Azellia White (1913-2019) was one of the first African-American women to obtain a pilot’s license in the US. She is seen as a trailblazer for women and African Americans alike in the field of aviation.

She obtained her license in 1946, and co-founded the Sky Ranch Flying Service, an airport and flight school open to African Americans in the Houston area.

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Science Saturday

This week we present Conversations on Chemistry: In Which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments and Plates, written anonymously by the English author Jane Haldimand Marcet (1769-1858). The first edition of the book was published in 1805, with many subsequent editions in both England and the United States. Here in Special Collections we hold an 1809 edition published in New Haven from Sidney’s Press for Increase Cooke & Co., and an 1830 edition published in Harford for Cooke & Co. The 1809 edition has illustrations that are based on drawings by Jane Marcet.

Jane Marcet (maiden name Haldimand) and her husband, Swiss physician Alexander Marcet were very involved in the literary and scientific circles in London. Alexander was a fellow of the  Royal Society, and Jane attended many lectures there with him. Jane Marcet is known for popularizing scientific principles, especially the works of chemist Humphry Davy, whose lectures Jane attended. As is clearly shown by the many reprintings, Jane Marcet’s Conversations on Chemistry was wildly popular. The book was framed as a conversation between a teacher Mrs. B and her two pupils, Emily and Caroline. In the preface to the 1809 edition, Jane Marcet explained she wanted to write a book on chemistry especially to educate women on the subject because it was something that really caught her own interest. Jane wrote:

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Women from three different countries training to become doctors at Women's Medical College of Philadelphia in 1885. From left to right: Dr. Anandibai Joshi (from India), Dr. Kei Okami (from Japan) and Dr. Sabat Islambouli (from Syria). All were among the first women to practice Western medicine in their respective countries.

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