Paving the Way

Welcome back to This Person I Met, and if you celebrate, Happy Thanksgiving! Now a physician scientist with a focus in breast cancer and women affected with aggressive breast cancer phenotypes, Sofia Merajver was once the only female out of 52 in her science class. But since then, she has become a pioneering Argentinian woman in academia, making breakthroughs in research and guiding younger generations of scientists. She is also professor of Epidemiology in the department of internal medicine at the University of Michigan. In today's episode, Professor Merajver shares all her incredible achievements and life journey in a most humble manner, along with her own, first-hand experience with cancer, the very disease she studies.