The exhibition "Catalan Women Scientists 2.0" arrives on March 1, in the lobby of the Children's and Women's Hospital to give visibility to the strategic role of female scientists. The itinerary will allow knowing the work of 24 outstanding researchers in the field of scientific research in Catalonia. Their trajectories, which cover disciplines as diverse as cosmology, computational neuroscience or cancer genetics, are intended to inspire the scientists of the future. This initiative is part of the Women In Science program that Vall d'Hebron and IRBLleida are launching to guarantee gender equality, promote the empowerment of women and make visible the essential role of women in science to build a fairer society.The exhibition, coordinated by the Gender Perspective Group of the Catalan Association for Scientific Communication (ACCC), highlights the role of women in important scientific advances for society. In parallel, it helps to break gender stereotypes and normalize the female presence in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics studies, known by the acronym STEAM.Past and present show how the role of the female scientist has been silenced throughout history. One of the precursors of the presence of women in science is Hypatia, born in Alexandria in 370. A thousand years before Copernicus, this Greek teacher was already promoting heliocentrism within the field of cosmology and spoke of the idea of displacing the Earth from the centre of the universe. After her, they have made a name in the history of science Rosalind Franklin, the first scientist to capture an image of a DNA molecule, or Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for her studies on radioactivity. Only 3.6% of women have won a Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, Physics or Chemistry.Two referents of the Vall d'Hebron CampusCurrently, less than 30% of scientific researchers worldwide are women. However, exhibitions such as "Catalan Women Scientific 2.0" claim access and participation of women, girls and adolescents in this area. Two of the references that appear are from Campus Vall d'Hebron. Dr. Ariadna Lagunas, principal investigator of the Neurodegenerative Diseases Group of the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), has dedicated the last 16 years of her professional life to researching diseases that affect the brain: Down syndrome and, currently , Parkinson's disease, to find new ways to diagnose them. In the last ten years, she has published advances to understand why neurons in the brain die, especially related to the protein synuclein and the neuromelanin pigment. She also talks about how microbes in the gut communicate with the brain and affect Parkinson's. These advancements open the doors to new treatments.For her part, Dr. Laura Soucek, principal investigator of the Group for the Modelling of Antitumor Therapies in Mouse of the Vall d 'Hebron Institut d'Oncologia (VHIO) and ICREA professor, is working on the development of a drug that could be effective against most tumours. She has been studying how to inhibit the MYC protein, a key molecule for cancer cells to reproduce, for more than 20 years. With the VHIO team, she has managed to design Omomyc, a Myc inhibitory miniprotein, which shows antitumor activity after administration by blood without generating severe or irreversible adverse effects.From March 1 to April 26With them, 22 more names appear, about which you can learn more, until April 26, in the lobby of the Vall d'Hebron Children's and Women's Hospital. Women who stand out in their areas, industrial engineering, robotics and industrial informatics, biology or neuropediatrics, among other disciplines.Incorporating a female gaze is not only a matter of gender equality, but also of social justice, in accordance with point five of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. People who visit the exhibition and share the experience on social media can use the hashtag #CientífiquesCatalanes20.The Vall d'Hebron Campus is committed to gender equality in all its areas of action and to the idea of promoting female leadership. At the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital and at the Vall d' Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), 63% of the workers are women. The female presence is higher in all professions: doctors, nurses, researchers, other health professionals, residents, and management and service professionals.