Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. I'm your host as always Danny Lennon and we're at episode

319 of the podcast and as this is published it is the 11th of February 2020 which happens to be

International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

And to mark this occasion, I thought it might be useful to look back over some of the fantastic women who are within academia and medical science that have been on the podcast over the past while.

And so today's episode is going to be taking from only a handful of our episodes from the past 12 months of the podcast

with some of the fantastic women who are working within academia, who have got to the top of their field,

who are producing phenomenal research,

as well as helping people on a large scale,

as a way of doing two things.

Number one, really just to mark the occasion

and to celebrate the fantastic work

that these academics have been doing.

But secondly, for the large number of women in our audience who are either aspiring

to work in academia, aspiring to build a career within any science field to show the essentially role models that are out there, these women

who have achieved fantastically within the area of nutritional and health science. And so hopefully

this is useful. So there's, of course, been far too many fantastic guests over not only the past 12 months,

but the podcast in general, but the focus for this episode is just the last 12 months in an effort

to at least narrow down the number of people we could include just for time's sake. And even within

that, there are many fantastic guests

that I've not been able to include a snippet from those episodes. And so this episode is going to be

just a handful of them introducing their background, how they got into that field and the current

work they do to give an idea of the

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