L'Oreal Foundation (48 articles found)

Fellowship Programs

05/05/2010

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New Regional Fellowship program launched in Africa!

There is still great potentials to be discovered and encouraged among women in science in Sub-Saharan Africa. This is now a priority, with the launch of the L’Oreal- UNESCO For Women in Science fellowships in the region!
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Fellowship Programs

31/03/2010

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Become a 2011 international Fellow !

You are a young woman researcher in Life Sciences? You are engaged in pursuing research at the doctoral or post-doctoral level? Apply to the International Fellowships program to join the worldwide Women in Science community!
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L’Oréal-Unesco AWARDS

28/03/2010

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Questions for Günter Blobel, President of the 2010 Jury

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...
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Women in Science Forum

23/03/2010

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Alice Dautry, General Director of Institut Pasteur “We must nurture and develop young talents!”

For several years, the international fellows are given the opportunity to follow some trainings during the For women in science week. media training, presentation skills, and more. This year, several trainings were organized with and inside the Pasteur Institute. INTERVIEW with Alice Dautry, General Director of Institut Pasteur gives us her view of this year’s Fellowship winners and described the workshops that will be held at the Institut Pasteur especially for them...
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L’Oréal-Unesco AWARDS

04/03/2010

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Prof. Lourdes J. Cruz, from poison to medicine

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...
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L’Oréal-Unesco AWARDS

04/03/2010

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Prof. Anne Dejean-Assémat, an untiring soldier in the battle against cancer

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....
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L’Oréal-Unesco AWARDS

03/03/2010

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Prof. Alejandra Bravo, the future of biopesticides

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 ...
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L’Oréal-Unesco AWARDS

03/03/2010

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Prof. Elaine Fuchs, the international reference in stem cells

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...
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L’Oréal-Unesco AWARDS

02/03/2010

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Prof. Rashika El Ridi, a pioneer in immunology

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”...
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Fellowship Programs

26/02/2010

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The 2010 International Fellows : the faces of tomorrow’s Science

The 2010 For Women in Science programme has chosen 15 new International Fellows. These young women researchers, at doctorate or post-doctorate level, will be granted for their outstanding research and will therefore be able to pursue their projects in renowned research laboratories outside of their country of origin (Host Institutions). Those Fellowships give a boost to promising research and help the beneficiaries to....
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