Skip to content
HomeWiSTEM2D Scholars

The WiSTEM2D Scholars Award Program

The Johnson & Johnson Scholars Award Program aims to fuel development of female STEM2D leaders and feed the STEM2D talent pipeline by awarding and sponsoring women at critical points in their careers, in each of the STEM2D disciplines: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Manufacturing and Design.
Expand
The goal of the program is to fuel the research passion of the awarded women and inspire career paths in their respective STEM2D fields. Johnson & Johnson looks to identify global women leading in both their research fields and leading as mentors, to be a vision for girls and other women in STEM2D.


By offering these awards, Johnson & Johnson hopes to play an influential role in STEM2D breakthroughs in the future.
Collapse
Women in STEM

WiSTEM2D Scholars Award Program update

Our program has undergone a re-design, and we no longer plan to offer the previous version of our Scholar’s Award for Associate and Assistant Professors. We apologize for the inconvenience, but please keep an eye out here for up-to-date information on our current offerings as they present themselves.

Please contact us at wistem2dscholars@its.jnj.com if you have any questions.

Our 2024 WiSTEM2D Scholars Program 3-minute communication challenge winners

Paige Halas

Paige Halas

University: University of California Irvine
Project Title: Discovering the travel agent for cancer
Crystle Wee

Crystle Wee

University: James Cook University
Project Title: Getting Corals to get it on
Kezia Susanto

Kezia Susanto

University: National University of Singapore
Project Title: Unlocking neurological potential: Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease

Meet the past WiSTEM2D Scholars Award Program winners

2022 WiSTEM2D Scholars Award Program winners

The Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Award Program winners have big ideas—and an even bigger drive to inspire other women studying science, technology, engineering, math, manufacturing and design to pursue their dreams, too.

2021 WiSTEM2D Scholars Award Program winners

Garnering more than 650 applications from 40 countries, the Company recognizes female researchers for their groundbreaking work in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Manufacturing and Design (STEM2D). Each recipient will receive $150,000 in funding and three years of mentorship from Johnson & Johnson to investigate optimizing cancer immunotherapy, reducing health and climate impacts of plastic, promoting off-grid production of fresh water, advancing urogynecological health, and improving hand function through assistive technologies.

2020 WiSTEM2D Scholars Award Program winners

They’re the winners of the second annual Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Award, thanks to such amazing innovations as tattoos that can monitor changes in your metabolism. Meet them and their groundbreaking work.

2019 WiSTEM2D Scholars Award Program winners

A foldable, 3-D printed robot that can serve as a heart stent. Using artificial intelligence to help detect cancer. Seeking out life on other planets. These are just some of the areas of fascinating research that this year’s winners of the Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Award are focused on in their labs across the country.

2018 WiSTEM2D Scholars Award Program winners

Meet the six inaugural winners of the Johnson & Johnson Women in STEM2D (WiSTEM2D) Scholars Award, which supports women at significant points in their research careers in the disciplines of Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Manufacturing and Design (STEM2D). The women each will receive a total of $150,000 in funding and three years of mentorship from Johnson & Johnson leaders as well as members of the award’s Advisory Board.

Discipline research examples

Woman reading book

Quantitative framework (numbers, quantities, shapes, abstract principles and problem solving) for describing the world.

Wistem manufacturing

Creating something from raw materials by hand or by machinery.

A photo of a woman wearing a hard hat at a job site

The practical application of science and math skills to everyday life.

Woman working on computers

Science or knowledge put to practical use to solve problems, invent useful tools, envision new possibilities or establish meaningful connections between people and the world that surrounds them.

A photo of test tubes and pipettes

Observing, studying and experimenting in an effort to better understand the natural world and how it works.

Woman completing an architecture drawing

A collaborative activity that results in better human experiences by uncovering unmet needs and championing meaningful relationships through user-friendly products, environments and systems.

More from Johnson & Johnson

This scientist couldn’t save his father from lung cancer—but the targeted treatments Robert Zhao, Ph.D., has since developed have helped countless others

Learn more about Zhao, his partnership with Johnson & Johnson and antibody-drug conjugates—a new type of cancer therapy that targets and kills cancer cells without harming healthy cells.

After their husbands were diagnosed with multiple myeloma, these 3 care partners became health equity activists

Kimberly Alexander, Michelle Ware-Ivy and Marsha Calloway-Campbell learned firsthand that Black individuals develop multiple myeloma at higher rates. That’s why they joined Johnson & Johnson’s That’s My Word® health equity campaign, which builds awareness about the disparities surrounding this rare blood cancer.

How Johnson & Johnson is working to get medications to people around the world who need them most

In the just-released 2024 Access to Medicine Index, the company ranks among the top 5 improving access to medicines.