Prof Sarah Russell
I am an immunologist, exploring how T cell fate is determined with the hope to provide better immunotherapies and immunomodulatory treatments. To achieve this goal, we need state-of-the-art imaging and analytical capacity, so my lab works both at PeterMac and with physicists and mathematicians at Swinburne University.
I believe that everybody has a right to a rewarding career that makes full use of their potential. That right is thwarted for many women, and I feel WiSPP provides the best opportunity to create better opportunities for women in medical research.
The focus of WiSPP on aiding the individuals at the 5 institutions, while using their experience to guide systemic change, is unique and complementary to the many other current efforts to resolve gender inequities. I have been heartened by the way WiSPP has brought people of so many different levels of seniority, discipline areas and genders together to tackle this problem. By combining systemic change with individual support and networking, I feel convinced that we will make dramatic improvements to gender inequities in the near future.