AU doctor, researcher receives national Women in Science Award

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – A neighborhood physician and researcher at Augusta College Well being is getting nationwide recognition.

Physician Betty Tempo acquired the American Medical Ladies’s Affiliation, Ladies in Science award.

She’s been finding out sickle cell illness all through her profession. Within the lab, she studied remedy strategies for individuals with sickle cell illness to lower ache and enhance survival charges.

She’s additionally performed scientific trials. Tempo says she hopes her work expands the sector of sickle cell analysis and results in a remedy. She provides her work is essential on a private stage which is without doubt one of the causes she’s honored to be acknowledged.

Tempo, a professor of pediatrics molecular and mobile biology, says, “Certainly one of my very shut mates in jr. highschool, truly died from sickle cell illness in order that impacted me to need to do analysis within the subject and deal with sufferers who’ve sickle cell illness. So to get that acknowledged by the American Medical Ladies’s Affiliation is only a dream come true.”

The award additionally honors her work coaching younger scientists.

She’s anticipated to obtain the award this weekend in Washington.

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