2010 l'OREAL-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science Honour Five Exceptional Women Scientists

The L'OREAL-UNESCO For Women in Science Partnership today announced the five exceptional women scientists from around the world who will receive the 2010 L'OREAL-UNESCO Awards in the Life Sciences.

An international network of nearly 1,000 scientists nominates the candidates for each year's awards. The five laureates are then selected at a meeting of the jury presided by Pr. Gunter Blobel, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1999.

The 2010 laureates are:

• Rashika El Ridi (Africa & Arab States): Professor at Cairo University in Egypt, for paving the way towards the development of a vaccine against the tropical disease Schistomiasis/Bilharzia.

• Lourdes J. Cruz (Asia-Pacific): Professor at the Marine Science Institute at the University of the Philippines Diliman in the Philippinesm for the discovery of marine snail toxins that can serve as powerful tools to study brain function.

• Elaine Fuchs (North America): Professor at The Rockefeller University in the United States, for her contributions to our knowledge of skin biology and skin stern cells.

• Anne Dejean-Assemat (Europe): Professor at the Pasteur Institute in France, for her contributions to our knowledge of leukaemia and liver cancers.

• Alejandra Bravo (Latin America): Professor at the Institute of Molecular Microbiology of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma in Mexico, for her work on a bacterial toxin that acts as a powerful insecticide.

 

The awards ceremony will take place on March 4th 2010 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Each Laureate receives US $100,000 in recognition of her contribution to the advancement of science.

 

• Source:UNESCO SC
• 15-10-2009