The Women who run the biggest machine ever built by Man
The complexity of LHC and the women in charge of it

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M D Saitta
Beatrice Bressan
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To transfer know-how and technology to spark innovation

Marilena Streit Bianchi
Marilena Streit Bianchi was a true pioneer. She arrived at CERN in 1969 coming from the Istituto Superiore di Sanitá of Rome, and her goal was to study the biological properties of accelerated particle beams for the treatment of tumours. She has been following closely some of the most fundamental developments in medical diagnosis, in particular those on the innovative PET technology initiated at CERN in the '70s by D. Townsend and A. Jeavons.
Marilena has studied and documented years of technological and economical spin-offs of particle physics on industry and society. During the construction of the LHC, she has been responsible of the Technology Transfer section of CERN.

Manjit Dosanjh Saitta
Manjit Dosanjh Saitta (here portrayed next to Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web) has a degree in Biochemistry and arrived at CERN after a long experience, punctuated by roles of responsibility, at MIT, at the Berkely National Laboratories and at Jackson State University.
She is advisor to CERN Director General for International Organisations and Life Sciences, and her major interest is in the possible applications of Particle Physics technologies to Biology, Bioinformatics and cancer therapy.

Beatrice Bressan
Beatrice Bressan has studied the social and economical benefits of the LHC experiments, highlighting the relevance of the inter and multi-disciplinary research carried out at CERN (as well as in Research Institutes as INFN in Italy). Research and development for Particle Physics research bring into the industrial world not only new technologies, but also highly qualified experts who transfer their know-how to industry.