3 QUESTIONS FOR...Günter Blobel, eminent professor at the Rockefeller University in New York, received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1999. Today his research is taking cellular biology to new levels. For the past three years, this German biologist has been President of the "For Women in Science" Awards Jury...

Back-to-back interviews of the photographer and filmmaker responsible for making portraits of the Laureates, who share their respective views of the world of these great scientists : Micheline Pelletier (Photographer) and Jaci Judelson (Filmmaker)

Professor Lourdes J. Cruz from the Marine Science Institute in the Philippines, has been awarded 2010 Laureate for Asia and Pacific ! In the 1970s, Professor Lourdes J. Cruz was one of the first to research conotoxins, the toxins of marine snails living in tropical seas that use toxic venom to paralyse their prey. By elucidating...

Professor Anne Dejean-Assémat, Research Director INSERM at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, has been awarded 2010 Laureate for Europe ! Each year nearly 8 million people die from cancer worldwide. To counter this plague, Professor Anne Dejean-Assémat has devoted her research to the study of the molecular and cellular mechanisms....

Professor Alejandra Bravo, researcher at the Institute of Biotechnology at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma of Mexico, has been awarded 2010 Laureate for Latin America ! “Green solutions for a sustainable world” is the motto of the Mexican scientist Alejandra Bravo. This internationally renowned biologist is working ...

Professor Elaine Fuchs, researcher at the Laboratory of Cellular Biology at the Rockefeller University in New -York (USA),  has been awarded 2010 Laureate for North America ! She is working at the leading edge of cutaneous biology and genetic skin disorders, including cancer. She was the first to precisely describe keratins, the principal structural proteins of skin cells, and identify...

Professor Rashika El Ridi, from the Faculty of Sciences at the Cairo University in Egypt,  has been awarded 2010 Laureate for Africa and the Arab States ! Expert in immunobiology, Professor Rashika El Ridi has devoted a large part of her research to the development of a vaccine against schistosomiasis. Also known as bilharzia or “snail fever”...

 Every year, the L'Oréal Foundation sends a team to meet the new Award Laureates in their countries, to get to know them and to better understand their research and the environment in which they evolve. During these visits, video and photo portraits are created.  In November 2009, a team left for the Philippines ...

French daily Le Monde issues a very interesting portrait on Prof. Lourdes Cruz, 2010 Laureate for Aisa/Pacific. The special reporter, Annick Cojean, has spent several days with Prof. Cruz in the Philippines where she got to follow the Laureate in her daily activities and better understand what drives this incredible women  in her life. Prof. Cruz has actually led fascinating research in marine toxinology and...

The UN cultural and scientific organisation UNESCO has chosen its new leader, former Bulgarian Foreign Minister Irina Bokova, the first woman to be elected at this position. Irina Bokova was the Bulgarian Ambassador to France and a permanent representative to UNESCO.  With years of experience at the highest levels of international politics, the career diplomat has also had ...