7th July 2021 #ImpactWednesday - Impact Women's Network

Impact Women’s Networkaims to highlight the impact that professional women are already having as well as create opportunities for more and greater impact to be realized collectively, beyond individuals and individual organisations.Impact Women’s Networkbrings together enterprising women from all sectors who want to do things differently.As a group of professionals,Impact Women’s Networkshares and develops cutting edge practices that have a profound impact on themselves and their businesses, and have the potential to do the same for peers, their sectors and society as a whole.Impact Women’s Networkdoes this by offering a space for collaboration between business women and academics alike, focussed on making a significant impact on their organisation, industry, sector, economy, environment or wider society.Tackling issues together such as challenging the status quo, intergenerational communication, breaking glass ceilings and flying off glass cliffs,Impact Women’s Networkcomes together to share experience as well as expertise.Impact Women’s Networkis a celebration of the success women are already achieving, and a space where women can rediscover the joy and support that professional women can get from pushing the boundaries of ‘business as usual’, together.If you would like to join the Impact Women's Network please sign up here:https://t.co/I6J2OKwPoJFollow us on Twitter: @ImpactWN #ImpactWN #ImpactWednesday #ImpactWomen #ImpactChat

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<h2>#ImpactWednesday session: 7th July 2021 (Impact Women&#x27;s Network)</h2>Please register here as you normally would and you will receive details on how to join us in the booking confirmation email. We look forward to seeing you there!<h3>Towards Equitable Drug Development</h3>How do we take the learnings from the COVID-19 vaccines and apply them to other diseases? A global consortium approach has enabled us to reach vaccines in under a year compared to a typical 10-15 years. So why do so many other illnesses and diseases not see this same level of uniting of science, funds and businesses to reach a solution? What are the ethical, societal and technological issues that need to be overcome to build on this positive scientific achievement, rather than revert to the past, and how do we ensure it is equitable across the globe?For this session we will be joined by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilrinidesilva/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dilrini De Silva</a>. She will be giving a lightning talk and we will then be moving into breakout rooms.Breakout sessions will focus on the following topics: •	Improving diversity in datasets – how can underrepresented populations contribute?•	Enabling access to advanced therapies in LMICs – how can we make these more affordable?•	AI and digital adoption in the drug discovery and development pipeline – how do we ensure existing biases are not propagated?Dilrini is a Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellow at the University of Cambridge with a background in Bioinformatics. She has over 7 years of postdoctoral expertise in genomic and clinical research, first at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Nuffield Dept of Medicine, University of Oxford and then Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, She is currently a UKRI Innovation Scholar pursuing an industry secondment in the use of Deep Learning to accelerate R&amp;D at AstraZeneca. Dilrini is also co-founder of Jāna Bio, a Cambridge-based biotech startup focused on improving pharmacogenomics applications for ethnic minorities and populations underrepresented in genomic research and clinical trials.Dilrini is from Sri Lanka, has a BSc in Biotechnology from Bangalore University, India and a MSc and PhD in Bioinformatics from Queen Mary University, London. Advice on this sessionOn joining the call, feel free to edit your name to say not just who you are but what you do i.e. Jane, architect | Susan, biotech entrepreneur etc. This is an active workshop. You will be asked to complete some items individually (feel free not to use your camera at this time) and in randomly allocated groups.You should use the chat function for your group updates so that we do not miss any feedback.Once registered you will receive the zoom link in the booking confirmation – please save this to your calendar.

Impact Women’s Network is a network of female professionals, academics and entrepreneurial women from all sectors, who want to do things differently and have a significant impact on their industry, business, society and the environment. Sharing experience and expertise, we are united in raising the public visibility of impactful women and instigating even greater change together.

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