Stories by Amy Scharf

Amy Scharf is an Executive Producer of the Lost Women of Science podcast. She is also a bioethicist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Amy is also the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Children's Aid, a non-profit that provides comprehensive social, educational, and health services to children in NYC's underserved communities, and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Johns Hopkins University School of Arts & Science.

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CancerJanuary 11, 2024

This Doctor Helped Spare Women from Radical Mastectomy

Canadian radiation oncologist Vera Peters pioneered the use of lumpectomies and postoperative radiation to treat breast cancer patients.

Amy Scharf, Johanna Mayer, The Lost Women of Science Initiative

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Public HealthOctober 19, 2023

This Virus Hunter Hunter Fought a Pandemic Using a Garage Full of Guinea Pigs

It's a global pandemic. The year is not 2020 but 1918, and Harriet Jane Lawrence is developing a vaccine against the deadliest influenza outbreak the world has ever seen

Erica Huang, Amy Scharf, The Lost Women of Science Initiative