Interested in learning a bit more about Dr. Helen Turner, special guest speaker and #STEM panelist moderator at the upcoming Science Symposium hosted by Sacred Hearts Academy.
Dr.
Helen Turner is Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and a tenured biology
Professor at Chaminade University. She is a respected immunologist, and holds
affiliate professorship and graduate faculty appointments at the John A. Burns
School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii. She received her PhD in
1998 from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, University of London, and was a
Wellcome Trust International Prize post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical
School from 1998-2000. From 2000-2007 she was Associate Director of
Research at The Queen’s Medical Center in Hawaii, receiving her first major NIH
research grant at within 4 years of her PhD.
Dr. Turner has published
over 30 research papers on the molecular logic of cellular communication in the
immune system, and secured over $30M in grants and program awards during her
tenure in Hawaii. Her research is currently funded by the National Institutes
of Health, the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Air Force. She engages
in research, capacity building, and grant review for diverse state and Federal
agencies and is a thought leader in Hawaii’s statewide science capacity
building efforts and in efforts to broaden participation in #STEM careers.
She was honored as a member of the Pacific Business News 40 Under 40
class of 2009 and is a founding fellow of the academic Executive Leadership
Academy at UC Berkeley. Dr. Turner is also a majority owner of
TwoFox Concepts, LLC, a science and education consulting company.
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