December 18, 2020
Zoe Weissman, a 15-year old 9th grader from Plantation, Florida, believes that science will be the ticket to diminishing most of the problems that riddle our world. She is most passionate about helping others and society through her research.
For instance, when Zoe learned that many clinical trials heavily rely on male subjects instead of both sexes including in her specific area of study focused on pain perception she knew she wanted to alleviate the gender disparities in medicine. She tells the Society that, “My project is on the bias against women in medicine. My research is in an area that I feel isn’t explored enough in the scientific community.” Research has shown that women, on average, report feeling more pain than men in response to the same stimuli; they also suffer more painful medical conditions overall (i.e. childbirth and other chronic pain). Women have also been shown to report their pain more often than men, consequently receiving prescri