The WSA should (preferably) be a senior woman scientist of high standing who is familiar with the NIH.
Each WSA is elected by the women scientists of her IC and serves a two-year term. A WSA can be elected for a second two-year term, but may not serve for more than a total of two terms. The IC women scientists can decide to elect an alternate, or a WSA-elect, to serve as back-up. The Scientific Directors approved the following procedure for selection of WSAs at their meeting of February 3, 1993:
Elections should be held in either April or October, so that brief orientations can be held for new WSAs in May/November.
Anita joined
the NIH in 1976 and spent 30 years at NCI, rising to Chief of the
Laboratory of Cell Regulation and Carcinogenesis. She died of
gastric cancer in May 2006, leaving a legacy that touched both the
professional and personal lives of all who knew her. Her work
focused primarily on TGF-beta and its role in the growth of
epithelial and lymphoid cells. In 2003, Thomas Scientific's
Science Watch listed her among the 50 most-cited scientists during
1982 to 2002, a feature called "Twenty Years of Citation
Superstars."
Anita was a
superstar to many for her mentoring talent and her ability to
balance family and work life. Her successful lab was well known
for meeting family needs and for providing an environment both
intellectually and emotionally enriching. The lecture series in
her name serves to highlight the fact that the NIH recognizes the
value and necessity of a supportive workplace.
October 26, 2006
Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D., Director, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and Chief, Vascular Biology and Genomics Section, National Human Genome Research Institute
Genomic Medicine and Cardiovascular
Disease
April 12, 2007
Elaine Jaffe, M.D., Head, Hematology Section, Acting Chief of Pathology, National Cancer Institute
The Many Guises and Disguises of Follicular Lymphoma
October 23, 2007
Nora Volkow, M.D., Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse
Why Is It So Hard for the Addict's Brain to Say No?
March 4, 2008
Susan Gottesman, Ph.D., Chief, Biochemical Genetics Section, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NCI/CCR
Stress Adaptation vis Regulatory RNAs
October 30, 2008
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ph.D., Chief, Section on Organelle Biology, Cell Biology & Metabolism Br,NICHD
Emerging Fluorescence Technology for the Analysis of Protein Localization and Organelle Dynamics