L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science
The L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science aims to improve the position of women in science by recognizing outstanding women researchers who have contributed to scientific progress. The awards are a result of a partnership between the French cosmetics company L'Oréal and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and carry a grant of $100,000 USD for each laureate.[1]
Each year an international jury alternates between life and material sciences and selects a winner from each of the following regions:
The same partnership awards the UNESCO-L'Oréal International Fellowships, providing up to $40,000 USD in funding over two years to fifteen young women scientists engaged in exemplary and promising research projects. [2]
Recipients
1998 Laureates:
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2007 Laureates:[1]
- Ameenah Gurib-Fakim (Mauritius): "For her exploration and analysis of plants from Mauritius and their bio-medical applications."
- Ligia Gargallo (Chile): "For her contributions to understanding solution properties of polymers."
- Mildred Dresselhaus (USA): "For her research on solid state materials, including conceptualizing the creation of carbon nanotubes."
- Margaret Brimble (New Zealand): "For her contribution to the synthesis of complex natural products, especially shellfish toxins."
- Tatiana Birshtein (Russia): "For her contribution to the understanding of the shapes, sizes and motions of large molecules."
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2009 Laureates:[4]
- Tebello Nyokong (Africa and the Arab States): "for her work on harnessing light for cancer therapy and for environmental clean-up".
- Akiko Kobayashi (Asia-Pacific): "for her contribution to the development of molecular conductors and the design and synthesis of a single-component molecular metal".
- Athene M. Donald (Europe): "for her work in unraveling the mysteries of the physics of messy materials, ranging from cement to starch".
- Beatriz Barbuy (Latin America): "for her work on the life of stars from the birth of the Universe to the present time".
- Eugenia Kumacheva (North America): "for the design and development of new materials with many applications including targeted drug delivery for cancer treatments and materials for high density optical data storage".
2010 Laureates:[5]
- Rashika El Ridi (Africa and the Arab States): "for paving the way towards the development of a vaccine against the tropical disease Schistosomiasis".
- Lourdes J. Cruz (Asia-Pacific): "for the discovery of marine snail toxins that can serve as powerful tools to study brain function".
- Anne Dejean-Assémat (Europe): "for her contributions to our understanding of leukaemia and liver cancers".
- Alejandra Bravo (Latin America): "for her work on a bacterial toxin that acts as a powerful insecticide".
- Elaine Fuchs (North America): "for her contributions to our knowledge of skin biology and skin stem cells".
See also
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