"“Start yourself off with people who believe in what you are trying to do. Before you sell whatever it is you want to sell, first believe in it yourself.”"

"“We need to create role models first and foremost to build up confidence because I think that is one of the key things that stops women from starting up businesses.”"

"Since my freshman year of high school, I have been intrigued by RNA. I conducted my Ph.D. research in Jennifer Doudna’s lab where I was the first student to work on CRISPR. Based on work that was done in her lab, we co-founded Caribou Biosciences with two other scientists. I wanted to transition from academia to industry to have a more direct impact through science on my community. Today at Caribou, our goal is to help realize the promise of CRISPR genome-editing technology and to develop new, potentially transformative cell therapies to help patients with devastating diseases. A role in industry provides me the opportunity to contribute to the development of new therapies for patients that could have a meaningful impact on their lives."

"I thought that being a company co-founder would be an amazing opportunity (and I was right!). Founding Caribou was risky. We did not know if we’d be able to raise money, hire a team, and ultimately build a successful organization. However, it was an exciting challenge I feel really lucky to have jumped into. As a company co-founder, and especially as the founding president and CEO, I’ve had the opportunity to work with many talented colleagues and lead Caribou to achieve some important milestones, including dosing the first patient in our phase 1 clinical trial for our first allogeneic cell therapy, CB-010, and completing a successful $350 million IPO."

"I wanted to be her."

"I thought, ‘If I don't get the part, I'll be the most miserable person in my life because she's wonderful.’"

"When I look back, she never took no for an answer, and sometimes by repeating the story, I lost the meaning of it. Now that I am talking to you, I do remember again what it meant. It meant that she believed in her thoughts and she had self‑confidence, self‑love, and she respected herself and others."

"She was one of the brave women who stood with me at Freedom Corner. Her courage was a source of strength for all of us during that difficult time."

"I don’t like the word ‘boundaries’ […]. I wish they didn’t exist."

"Even when there are no resources, we cannot give up on our people. We use our voice, our hands, and our hearts to make a difference."

"Joyce Mbui was a symbol of fearless dedication to human rights and democracy in Kenya. Her sacrifice at Freedom Corner remains a pivotal moment in the nation's struggle for political pluralism."

"Catherine was a pillar in this community. Her work in public health and social justice brought tangible change and saved countless lives."

"First, I sleep on it and let the subconscious do its great work. Then, I sit down and try to break down the obstacle into smaller parts. I try to explore if there are other paths around the obstacle, ones that I haven’t thought about. For big obstacles, after I have drafted a plan, I always call a close colleague, someone that I trust, to run it by them. Often the situation might be much clearer from a more distant perspective. These chats help me sound out if there is an obvious path that I have missed or maybe I am too emotionally involved in obstacle to see the solution clearly."

"Two tricks that always help me are first to break down my plan into many small tasks that can be accomplished in short periods of time. For example if I have to give a big talk on a subject that I not as familiar with, then I find a list of papers that I want to read, and I read one paper a day. This helps me make the project tangible and less scary. Instead of ‘God, I have to give a huge talk!’, I have transformed the problem into ‘I need to read these 10 papers.’. In this way as well, I can easily measure my progress and the obstacle feels less daunting."

"The second trick is that I keep a small notebook with a list of success that I am proud of. So many times I find that I can recall of my failures or embarrassing moments in an instant. In contrast, all of my successes seem easily forgotten. When I find myself overwhelmed in a moment of panic, this list helps me remind myself of all the tough things that I have successfully overcome in the past. I tell myself - you did it then, you can do it now. Don’t be discouraged."

"I did a three-years post-PhD contract at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne"

"Change does not start in big offices; it starts at the grassroots, with the people. We must be the change we want to see in our own neighborhoods."

"The health of a mother is the foundation of the entire family. When you save a mother, you save a whole community."

"She represented the power of ordinary citizens to confront oppressive power. Her story is not just history; it is a lesson in civic courage for every generation."

"This is an individual award, but my work was achieved as a team."

"I work on what we call in particle physics the 'standard model."

"I liked particle physics, I liked the idea to reveal secrets of the world."

"I liked big machines such as scanners."

"I arrived in France at the beginning of classes."

"Far from what I had experimented in medical studies, we shared notes between students when one of us was sick."

"I have done research mainly between France and Switzerland."

"She was fascinated by teachers, who were often teachers researchers with thrilling discussions, most of all when you want to work in research."

"I finally found a place to stay, I was already lagging."

"Life is about overcoming obstacles, especially for women, so it's a constant battle and you have to remind yourself that if you do nothing, then things will go wrong, but you have to keep acting, you have to keep doing the right things for things to go right."

"I arrived in France in 1999 to start medicine."

"For various reasons medicine didn’t quite work out for me, so I started to study fundamental physics which I loved very much."

"I did the equivalent of bachelor and master."

"I was born and raised in Algiers, in high school I was in “Sciences Exact."

"I stop here, but there is so much more to say on this topic."

"I think it’s important to emphasise the collaborative aspect of these discoveries in particular in the collider physics."

"I did a PhD in particle physics between 2006 and 2009."

"I feel very proud. Especially for my family who was always supportive of my work."

"The people in charge have the responsibility to create an environment where all voices, even the less loud ones can express themselves and their ideas."

"Who writes reference letters for young women should make sure that they promote all the skills and not only her soft skills."

"When a physicist does his analysis, he will."

"Parental leaves should be respected and the responsibilities of women who return after a leave should be restored to them."

"The facilities and detector which were and will be built are gigantic and they need the association of many institutes in many countries."

"Scheduling meetings after 17:00 will invertibility discriminate against young mothers and therefore should be avoided."

"My institute indeed participated in the discovery of many particles since it was created in the fifties."

"I was a post-doc in EPFL."

"I interact with people across the world."

"It starts with children, how they are raised and educated."

"The stigma that girls are not good at Math starts when they are tiny."

"I was partly based at CERN."

"What is interesting is that while this model is very powerful and predictive it fails to explain some aspects for nature such as dark matter."