UNESCO honors five outstanding female scientists

On November 9, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) honored five female scientists in different regions of the world for outstanding achievements in scientific research. in 2011.

These scientists will receive the L'ORÉAL-UNESCO award.

The L'ORÉAL-UNESCO award, which began in 1998, is a joint award of the United Nations and L'Oreal cosmetics with a value of USD 100,000 per prize for the best female scientists every year. Based on the selection of more than 1,000 female scientists, an independent international jury is made up of world-renowned scientists.

This year's award-winning female scientists include South African scientist Jill Farrant, Ingrid Scheffer, Australia, British scientist Frances Ashcroft, and Mexican representatives - Susana López and American scientist Bonnie Bassler.

The British scientist Frances Ashcroft is one of five houses
Female science honored this year.

The research fields of female scientists who received the L'ORÉAL-UNESCO award in 2011 were quite wide and varied.

Farrant succeeded in discovering the mechanism of crops that existed in drought conditions. López found a way to make rotaviruses cause the death of 600,000 children worldwide every year.

Meanwhile, British scientist Ashcroft achieved achievements in advanced research on insulin secretion and a rare form of serious diabetes.

Scheffer's work identifies the gene involved in several forms of epilepsy, while Bassler's expert succeeds in studies of chemical information between microorganisms.

Since 1998, the L'ORÉAL-UNESCO award, the award for women in science, has been awarded to 72 outstanding female scientists with outstanding success in scientific research, in which two female scientists won the Nobel Prize.

To encourage women to participate in scientific research, UNESCO and L'ORÉAL have established partnerships and developed a global network of national, regional and international scholarship programs to support Young female scientist pursuing research career.

This network has awarded scholarships to more than 1,200 female scientists in 103 countries around the world.