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We are scientists: U of T researchers reach out to girls and women around the world
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Sanja Fidler’s grandmother graduated from medical school – and the young doctor’s experience treating the wounded led her to become one of the first female plastic surgeons in her country.
“She was my main source of inspiration,” says Fidler, a computer vision expert from Slovenia.
“She loved science and she would always inspire me to think about science. She would play board games with me. She loved to hear about me going to math competitions, chess competitions and, later, when I was an adult, the conferences.”