Celebrating Women’s History Month with Women In Bio Organization

With just a couple of days remaining in March to celebrate Women’s History Month, we thought none better than to invite the Women In Bio (WIB) organization to Bridgeside so our community members could learn more about what they do and their benefits of membership.

On an early Wednesday morning, with complimentary coffee and doughnuts galore, we set up in the lobby with Beth Stronich, Scientist Administrator at the UPitt Office of Research, Health Sciences, who was there to represent the WIB’s Pittsburgh chapter.

Established in 2002 as a way to help women entrepreneurs and executives build successful bioscience-related businesses, WIB quickly became a forum for women to come together to celebrate and support each other. 

And as attendees mixed and mingled with one another, Beth shared further insights, such as:

• There are 14 chapters across the U.S., with 3,100+ members

• Engagements include executive trainings, mentoring, and C-suite engagement seminars

• Members come from a diverse background ranging from academia, biotech/pharma, and nonprofilt or medical devices

• WIB also has a Young Women In Bio organization that exposes young girls to careers in STEM

From our conversations, we also uncovered that quite a few tenants were already members and many students were interested in knowing about chapters in other parts of the country because they have plans to move after graduation!