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This march, Sara Suliman from the Department of Experimental Medicine at the University of California gives the Crick Science and Society Lecture - "Opportunities and Challenges in Research from a Young Investigator's Perspective"
Sara is a Sudanese immunologist at the UCSF who advocates for the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minorities in science and for the creation of more equitable science cultures.
Sara Suliman was born in Khartoum, Sudan, and grew up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her family slowly moved to Canada, where she was an international student for her undergraduate degree in biomedical sciences. Resisting the all too familiar pressure from African immigrant families to go to medical school, she decided to pursue a research career, and started a doctoral program in immunology, studying cancer immunology. However, she wanted to merge her interest in public health and infectious diseases with her immunology training, so moved to Cape Town to work on tuberculosis. After a second postdoc at the Harvard Medical School, she started her independent lab at the University of California San Francisco.