Our May WISER Woman is Sonia Hall. Ph. D., President and CEO of BioKansas. Dr. Hall has a passion for making careers in science more accessible and inclusive for women and minorities and empowering the next generation of scientists through her mentorship and advocacy efforts. In her work with BioKansas, she works to support the Kansas bioscience ecosystem including bioscience research, commercialization, training, and business development and builds meaningful and productive partnerships that serve the broad scientific community and state. Dr. Hall willing be joining our panel discussion on June 6th for WISER Conversations: Being an Influencer.

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D. is the Executive Director & Chief Scientific Officer at Stowers Institute for Medical Research and was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Dr. Sánchez Alvarado and his lab are studying the molecular mechanics of regeneration. Despite the importance of regenerative processes to human biology and health, the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving the restoration of body parts lost to physiological turnover and/or injury remain largely unexplored. By identifying and characterizing regeneration at the molecular level, they hope to gain a better understanding of how higher organisms, including humans, develop biologically. You can learn more about his fascinating work here.