Talk:Adah Almutairi

Name

There seems to be a lot of controversy surrounding her name. On the official UCSD website, her name is listed as Adah therefore I believe this should be listed as her name on Wikipedia.

Some sources give her name as "Ghada Al-Mutairi" e.g. , but I think her employer profile is a more reliable source. Mw learner (talk) 23:50, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

References

Edits to Adah Almutairi

• What I think should be changed (include citations):

The photo currently listed on Adah Almutairi's page has an incorrect date. The photo is from the Sagia Conference in Riyadh Saudi Arabia 2010. Currently the caption says "Adah Almutairi in 2013".

The information listed on this page does not include updates from the past 7 years of Almutairi's career. This includes: her Board Trustee role with the Future Investment Initiative (FII) or her speech with then-chancellor Angela Merkel celebrating 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The page is also missing information on her updates her research has made in the field of nanocrystals

• Why it should be changed:

Edits should be done to keep the page updated and accurate to changes that have occurred in the subjects research.

Coquelicots0 (talk) 22:34, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

References

@Coquelicots0 Not done for now Edit requests need to include the verbatim text that is to be added to the article. It is up to the COI editor to propose that text here on the talk page. Please feel free to create a new edit request below this reply post that includes the verbatim text you would like added to the article. Please also ensure that any references that are used to verify the requested information come from reliable secondary sources. As far as the date of the image used in the article, I will check the image file's page to determine what date is stated there. A date should have been given along with the license that was posted when the image was uploaded. If the date used with the license aligns with the date used in the image's caption, a reference which confirms that the date is incorrect will be needed to alter that date. Regards,  Spintendo  02:53, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

I've checked the image file's page, and it indicates that the picture was taken in 2013 at the Inspiring Initiatives Sustainable Competitiveness Forum. If this date is to be contradicted, then the source needed would be to a list of speakers/panel members from this forum which shows Almutairi as one of the featured speakers/panel members, which she appears to be in the picture. There appears to be some Arabic writing on the screen behind her in the picture, but there are no Arabic numerals showing some kind of date to help with giving a time frame for when the picture was taken. Therefore, a list of panel members from that event would be most helpful in establishing the date, if one can be found. Regards,  Spintendo  03:13, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

Notes

@Spintendo Thanks for the feedback. I'll submit a new edit request with the text I'd like to suggest. Coquelicots0 (talk) 13:41, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Edit Request 2-OCT-2023

• What I think should be changed (added additional information based on updates in Almutairi's research and career. ):

Adah Almutairi (Arabic: غادة المطيري; born November 1, 1976) is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur and professor at University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Her work focuses on nanomedicine, nanotechnology, chemistry and polymer science.

Early life and education

Prof. Almutairi was born on November 1, 1976, in Portland, Oregon, United States to Saudi parents. Prof. Almutairi lived in Jeddah, on the coast of the Red Sea of Saudi Arabia for 9 years before moving to Los Angeles in 1995 to begin her higher education. She graduated from Occidental College with a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 2000.

Academic career

She obtained her Ph.D. in materials chemistry from University of California, Riverside, with a focus on electron delocalization and molecular structure in 2005. She completed her postdoctoral studies in chemistry and chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2005 to 2008. At Berkeley, Almutairi worked with Jean Fréchet where she developed several nanoprobes for in vivo molecular imaging. She joined the University of California, San Diego in 2008, and has been there ever since, as the director of excellence in Nanomedicine.

Professional career

Adah Almutairi’s seminal paper in 2010 was the first demonstration that gentle, unseen rays of light trigger a meaningful response in synthetic soft matter – demonstrating that such rays can be usefully applied in medicine and many other tech sectors as a somewhat “remote control” into solids.

Almutairi and her co-workers employed polymer entanglement (Reptation) to amplify the effects of the chemical change triggered by the rays of light, and break apart the backbone of the polymer. This research was one of four highlighted to Congress in 2012 by then NIH director, Francis Collins.

Almutairi later contributed to research in hard matter: how particles can only house a limited percentage of light-converting atoms - such as lanthanides - to harness these gentle rays and convert them to higher energy rays to increase the response strength. Her research improved the efficiency of upconverting nanoparticles: particles can be made of 100 percent light-harvesting lanthanide atoms such that their efficiency skyrocketed thousands of multiples. She partnered with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to verify her claims and findings, co-writing a paper.

In 2012, Almutairi contributed to the first demonstration that drugs could be selectively delivered to sites of biologically relevant levels of inflammation. Use cases include: diagnostic imaging (contrast agent), and distributing the therapy itself (therapeutic agent). She also contributed to the development of a tool to model diseases in artificial tissue-like gels in 3D.

Awards and honors

• In 2012, Professor Almutairi was invited to deliver Chancellor Pradeep Koshla’s inauguration symposium to speak about her research and innovation.
• In 2013, Professor Almutairi was invited to deliver a TEDx talk titled ‘The Art of Falling Apart’.
• In 2014, Professor Almutairi delivered a speech in Berlin along with then-chancellor Angela Merkel celebrating 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, to speak about ‘Breaking the Wall of Medicine’.
• From 2019-2020 Professor Almutairi wrote a weekly science column for the Independent Arabia newspaper focusing on new breakthroughs such as Gene Editing, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics.
• During the COVID-19 pandemic, Almutairi was a Board Trustee with the Future Investment Initiative (FII).
• In 2021, Almutairi delivered the opening remarks at the annual FII5 Conference.

Almutairi currently sits on the boards of several pharmaceutical and tech start-ups, both public and privately owned.

Coquelicots0 (talk) 14:50, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

References

Reply 2-OCT-2023

  Edit request partially implemented  

1. Y Scientist was added to the lead section (and Wikilinked) per MOS:CONTEXTLINK.
2. Y The information under the Academic career section was retained, but modified to delete unreferenced information that contained a promotional tone (e.g., "the director of excellence in Nanomedicine")
3. Y An Awards section was retained under a level 2 heading. However, the only award that appears to be independently notable, the NIH Director's New Innovator Award, was the sole item placed there.
4. N The requested prose under the Professional career section was not added, because the references provided are to primary sources rather than references from reliable, neutral, secondary sources, which are preferred in Wikipedia.
5. N Inventor and entrepreneur were not added to the lead section because there did not appear to be any secondary sources provided with the request which confirmed these descriptions.
6. N The text Prof. Almutairi lived in Jeddah, on the coast of the Red Sea of Saudi Arabia for 9 years before moving to Los Angeles in 1995 to begin her higher education. She graduated from Occidental College with a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 2000 was not added because it was (a) unreferenced and (b) contained information regarding the subject's undergraduate degree. Those types of degrees are generally not added to Wikipedia articles.
7. N The instances of using the phrase "Professor" or "Prof." were deleted per MOS:DOCTOR.

Regards,  Spintendo  20:56, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Professional career

Almutairi demonstrated that rays of light trigger a meaningful response in synthetic soft matter – demonstrating that such rays can be usefully applied in medicine and many other tech sectors as a somewhat “remote control” into solids.

In 2012, Almutairi contributed to the first demonstration that drugs could be selectively delivered to sites of biologically relevant levels of inflammation. Use cases include: diagnostic imaging (contrast agent), and distributing the therapy itself (therapeutic agent). Almutairi and her colleagues also developed a method for producing tissue scaffolds in three-dimensional arrangements.

In 2014, Professor Almutairi delivered a speech in Berlin along with then-chancellor Angela Merkel celebrating 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, to speak about ‘Breaking the Wall of Medicine’.

Almutairi later contributed to research in hard matter: how particles can only house a limited percentage of light-converting atoms - such as lanthanides - to harness these gentle rays and convert them to higher energy rays to increase the response strength. Her research improved the efficiency of upconverting nanoparticles: particles can be made of 100 percent light-harvesting lanthanide atoms such that their efficiency skyrocketed thousands of multiples. She partnered with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to verify her claims and findings, co-writing a paper.

Coquelicots0 (talk) 19:17, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

References

Not done for now Please provide references from reliable, independent secondary sources for these claims (not from the subject's employer UCSD). Regards,  Spintendo  12:46, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

@Spintendo

Can this article be used as a source for these claims?

Citation:

Yaqoob, Tahira. “Woman of Substance: The Materials World of Adah Almutairi.” The National, www.thenationalnews.com/mena/arab-showcase/2022/08/11/woman-of-substance-the-materials-world-of-adah-almutairi/. Accessed 17 Nov. 2023. Coquelicots0 (talk) 20:14, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Since it's an interview with her, we can use it for any claim involving herself alone - but not any claims made which involve herself along with third parties, or about third parties. Regards,  Spintendo  23:19, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

@Spintendo Question

The sources for these claims are separate from subject's employer (UCSD). Can it be added?

1. Suggested Wiki Edits Almutairi later contributed to research in hard matter: how particles can only house a limited percentage of light-converting atoms - such as lanthanides - to harness these gentle rays and convert them to higher energy rays to increase the response strength. Her research improved the efficiency of upconverting nanoparticles: particles can be made of 100 percent light-harvesting lanthanide atoms such that their efficiency skyrocketed thousands of multiples. She partnered with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to verify her claims and findings, co-writing a paper.

I picked out text from the article to go with the suggested wiki edits:

1. Suggested Wiki Edits: In 2014, Professor Almutairi delivered a speech in Berlin along with then-chancellor Angela Merkel celebrating 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, to speak about ‘Breaking the Wall of Medicine’. Article Text: Years later, at a conference to mark the 25th anniversary of the reunification of Germany, Ms Almutairi was on a stage in Berlin talking about her ground-breaking achievements in knocking down walls in science. At the Falling Walls event, she gave an engaging, if sometimes faltering, presentation of her life-changing nanoparticle discovery feted in the US Congress as one of the four most important US technology breakthroughs of 2012.

Coquelicots0 (talk) 17:51, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Would this press release be a reliable source for the following claim?

Source:

National Academy of Sciences - http://www.nasonline.org

https://www.nasonline.org/programs/kavli-frontiers-of-science/news/2016-kavli-fellows.html

Suggested Wiki Edit:

Almutairi was invited to participate in 2016 Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposia of the National Academy of Sciences . Coquelicots0 (talk) 18:01, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

@Spintendo Coquelicots0 (talk) 16:37, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

I apologize, I'm not easily able to discern what sources you're asking about here. Sources need to be combined with the text that they reference, and formatted using ref tags. These ref tags should be placed at the end of those sentences which they confirm, like this:

The Sun's diameter is 864,337 miles, while the Moon's diameter is 2,159 miles. The Sun's temperature is 5,778 Kelvin.

References

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That way, it's easily discerned which reference goes with which statement. The proposed text above has portions which do not appear to be referenced. Also, your proposed text contains an external link, which article text cannot contain (they can contain ref tags which link to references containing external links, but the reference section is at the end of all articles). Please reformulate your request so that all claims contain easily discerned references and advise when ready to proceed. Thank you! Regards,  Spintendo  16:04, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

@Spintendothanks for the reply. Updated below :)

In 2014, Professor Almutairi delivered a speech in Berlin along with then-chancellor Angela Merkel celebrating 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, to speak about ‘Breaking the Wall of Medicine’.

Almutairi was invited to participate in 2016 Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposia of the National Academy of Sciences.

Almutairi later contributed to research in hard matter: how particles can only house a limited percentage of light-converting atoms - such as lanthanides - to harness these gentle rays and convert them to higher energy rays to increase the response strength. Her research improved the efficiency of upconverting nanoparticles: particles can be made of 100 percent light-harvesting lanthanide atoms such that their efficiency skyrocketed thousands of multiples. She partnered with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to verify her claims and findings, co-writing a paper. Coquelicots0 (talk) 18:29, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

References

Thank you for updating the sources , it's much appreciated. I do have an issue with The National, which appears to be an Abu Dhabi-based media that is in private hands. Being in private hands ought not to be a major issue, as the New York Times, while being a publically held company that is primarily controlled by one family, might arguably fall under that definition, the time span here for reliability is different. The National came about in 2017 and is relatively new. I'm not sure the informatiuon which they publish can be fully relied upon. The title, "Woman of Substance", leaves a lot to be desired, and does not assure us that they are completely neutral in their coverage. Perhaps we could locate some other sources? Please advise. Regards,  Spintendo  16:27, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Awards and Honors

In 2016, Almutairi was recognized as a Kavli Fellow by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences .

In 2023, Almutairi was recognized as a TAKREEM Laureate .

@Spintendo

Coquelicots0 (talk) 16:36, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

@Spintendo I've added suggested text/citations for the Awards and Honors section Coquelicots0 (talk) 21:50, 12 March 2024 (UTC)