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Jan 21, 2025 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Diane Mohamed |Rachel Friedman |Lynn Monzer |Nibras Basitkey
The Atlantic Council’s Women Innovators (WIn) Fellowship will host its third event for the Jordan cohort on Tuesday, January 28 at 10:00 a.m. ET (6:00 p.m. Amman time). This event, the third of four workshops organized for the WIn Fellowship’s Jordan cohort, will aim to explore how startups are successfully positioning the country as an innovation-driven economy and contributing to the growth of the region’s impact-driven businesses.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
nature.com | Diemmy Nguyen |Laurel Darragh |Mike W. Matsumoto |Benjamin Van Court |Alexander Nguyen |Shilpa Bhatia | +7 more
AbstractThe EphB4-ephrinB2 signaling axis has been heavily implicated in metastasis across numerous cancer types. Our emerging understanding of the dichotomous roles that EphB4 and ephrinB2 play in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) poses a significant challenge to rational drug design. We find that EphB4 knockdown in cancer cells enhances metastasis in preclinical HNSCC models by augmenting immunosuppressive cells like T regulatory cells (Tregs) within the tumor microenvironment.
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Nov 2, 2024 | nature.com | Diemmy Nguyen |Laurel Darragh |Mike W. Matsumoto |Benjamin Van Court |Alexander Nguyen |Shilpa Bhatia | +7 more
AbstractThe EphB4-ephrinB2 signaling axis has been heavily implicated in metastasis across numerous cancer types. Our emerging understanding of the dichotomous roles that EphB4 and ephrinB2 play in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) poses a significant challenge to rational drug design. We find that EphB4 knockdown in cancer cells enhances metastasis in preclinical HNSCC models by augmenting immunosuppressive cells like T regulatory cells (Tregs) within the tumor microenvironment.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Diane Mohamed |Rachel Friedman |Lynn Monzer |Nibras Basitkey
The Atlantic Council’s WIn Fellowship will host a roundtable discussion to tackle recent developments and policy initiatives, key sectors where Saudi women are making strides, the role of digital platforms in empowering female entrepreneurs, and predictions for the future of women entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia.
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May 10, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Laura Pyle |Rachel Friedman |Vira Kravets |Nirmala V Balasenthilkumaran
AbstractOne of the challenges in studying islet inflammation - insulitis - is that it is a transient phenomenon. Traditional reporting of the insulitis progression is based on cumulative, donor-averaged values of leucocyte density in the vicinity of pancreatic islets, that hinders intra- and inter-islet heterogeneity of disease progression. Here, we aimed to understand why insulitis is non-uniform, often with peri-insulitis lesions formed on one side of an islet.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Charles Johnson |Diane Mohamed |Rachel Friedman |Lynn Monzer
About the WIn Fellowship The Women Innovators (WIn) Fellowship, initiated by the empowerME initiative at the Atlantic Council, and in partnership with Georgetown University since March 2022, aims to help women entrepreneurs expand their startups.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | JP Reppeto |Charles Johnson |Diane Mohamed |Rachel Friedman
As the world grapples with multiple ongoing conflicts, geopolitical turmoil, extreme weather events, and threats to democracy, it is imperative to underscore how these challenges impact women and girls specifically—but also how women and girls are essential in addressing them. In honor of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, the Atlantic Council is hosting discussions highlighting how women and girls around the world are addressing today’s most pressing global challenges.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Rachel Friedman
Civil Society Conflict Crisis Management Human Rights Israel Middle East Politics & Diplomacy Resilience & Society Security & Defense Terrorism Arab-Israelis are facing a crisis in Israel. But there’s a way out. In the wake of the October 7, 2023 Hamas terror attack and subsequent war, Israel’s internal security apparatus, the Israel Security Agency, reported escalated concerns of violence between the country’s Jewish and Arab populations. This is not a fabricated anxiety. Many Israelis fear...
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Rachel Friedman |Ksenia Svetlova |Alia Brahimi |Kenda Hawasli
Iran Iraq Israel Lebanon Libya Middle East Morocco North Africa Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Politics & Diplomacy Saudi Arabia Security & Defense Syria The Gulf Turkey 2023: A year in the Middle East 2023 was a tumultuous and tragic year for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This year saw the outbreak of wars in Sudan and between Israel and the Gaza Strip, devastating natural disasters in Morocco, Libya, Syria, and Turkey, and a crackdown on protestors and women in Iran. 2023 also...
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Diane Mohamed |Rachel Friedman |Nibras Basitkey |Lynn Monzer
Economy & Business International Markets Middle East Technology & Innovation Women Decoding the dynamics of venture capital in the MENA region On December 12th, 2023, the Atlantic Council’s empowerME initiative, in collaboration with the United States Embassy in Manama, the United States Mission to the United Arab Emirates, the United States Embassy in Saudi Arabia, and PepsiCo, held an insightful WIn Fellowship virtual workshop. This engaging discussion focused on demystifying venture...
