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L’Oréal-Unesco AWARDS
04/03/2010
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... - No Comments
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L’Oréal-Unesco AWARDS
04/03/2010
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.... - No Comments
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L’Oréal-Unesco AWARDS
03/03/2010
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 ... - No Comments
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L’Oréal-Unesco AWARDS
03/03/2010
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... - No Comments
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L’Oréal-Unesco AWARDS
02/03/2010
Prof. Rashika El Ridi, a pioneer in immunology
Professor Rashika El Ridi, from the Faculty of Sciences at the Cairo University in Egypt, Â 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”... - No Comments
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Fellowship Programs
26/02/2010
Discover the 2010 International Fellows
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.... - No Comments
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Science for a better future
18/02/2010
Toward eco-responsible agriculture
2010 Laureate for Latin America, Prof. Alejandra Bravo, has led research into pesticides which consists in offering an alternative to chemical methods. For her, the main issue today should be to control insect pesticides by maintaining them under the threshold of damage level.Â
Insects can be noxious both in agriculture and in spreading human diseases... - 3 Comments
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Science for a better future
16/02/2010
New methods for the clean-up of environmental pollutants
2009 Laureate for Africa and the Arab States, Prof. Tebello Nyokong (from South Africa), has led research involving the use of a blue-jean (aniline) dye that was activated by light. Then she proved that the molecules inside the dye could be used to detect pollution in water, and could, in certain circumstances, even detect cancer. She therefore made unusual connections between blue jeans, environmental clean-up and medical treatment… - No Comments
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Women in Science Forum
08/02/2010
“If when you think of a scientist, you picture a man…
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L’Oréal-Unesco AWARDS
08/01/2010
1 week with Lourdes Cruz in the Philippines…
 Every year, the L'OrĂ©al 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.Â
In November 2009, a team left for the Philippines ... - No Comments
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