The European Life Scientist Organization (ELSO) is hoping to raise the visibility of European-based female scientists with a new public online database of ?expert women.? Recently launched, the organizers of the Database of Expert Woman in the Molecular Sciences hope it will promote qualified women as candidates for professorships, advisory groups, and committees; as speakers at conferences; and as manuscript reviewers and members of editorial boards, says database coordinator Karla Neugebauer, group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany.
To be accepted into the database, a woman must be an expert in the field, based in Europe and/or a European national (based anywhere in the world), and have published (first or last author) within the past three years a basic research article in an internationally recognized journal. Women can apply online, and people can search the database, by going to www.elso-cdc.org and ...
