2009: UNESCO-L'OREAL Fellowships for Young women in Life Sciences

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• UNESCO-L'Oréal Fellows 2009

15 young women researchers in the life sciences, from 15 different countries across the world, will receive the 2009 UNESCO-L’ORÉAL Fellowships For Women in Science at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Awarded annually since 1999, the Fellowships permit doctoral and post-doctoral women to pursue their research in host laboratories outside their home countries. Since 2006, they receive a maximum of US $40,000 over a period of two years.

The candidates’ research projects are submitted to the fellowship selection committee by the UNESCO National Commissions. The projets that have been selected often relate to the needs of local populations or represent original fields of research, such as: the characterization of a protein with healing properties that is produced by catfish or the study by IRM of the interactions of different areas of the brain in healthy and depressed patients.

The 2009 UNESCO-L'OREAL Fellows are:

Africa:

• Fina KURREEMAN (Mauritius)
  Research project: Functional characterisation & potential application of the novel genetic risk factor TRAF1/C5 in Rheumatoid Arthritis.
• Nonhlanhla DLAMINI (South Africa)
  Research project: African traiditional medicine used in treatment of Kaposi's sarcoma
• Joan MUNISSI (Tanzania)
  Research project: Antimicrobial secondary metabolites from cultures of Tanzanian marine-derived fungi

Arab States:

• Marie ABBOUD (Lebanon)
  Research project: Imagerie optique non invasive des structures biologiques
• Khadijetou LEKWEIRY (Mauritania)
  Research project: Contribution à l'étude du paludisme urbain en Mauritanie: origine du paludisme et faune anophélienne dans la ville de Nouakchott
• Rima AL-BESHARAT (Syria)
  Isolation, identification and characterization of local probiotic strains and optimizing their production conditions for use in functional food

Asia and the Pacific:

• Jingyi SHI (China)
  Aberrant DNA myelocytic of tumour suppressor genes in AML
• Yean Yean CHAN (Malaysia)
  Electrochemical DNA hybridization biosensor system for biological and biomedical applications on self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) modified screen printed electrodes
• Ishrat BANO (Pakistan)
  Nano-composites materials for bio-chemical applications

Europe & North America

• Ivana PESIC (Serbia)
  Urine Proteomics in Kidney Disease and Urothel Cancer
• Mareike POSNER (Germany)
  Protein assembly and thermostability of multienzyme complexes from the extreme
• Lydia LYNCH (Ireland)
  The Human omentum as an immunological tool

Latin America & the Caribbean Region

• Paula VILLAR (Argentina)
  Computational cardiac electromechanical model
• Bertha GONZALES FRANKENBERGER (Mexico)
  Development of speech and voice processing in neonates and premature babies
• Cecilia GONZALES MARIN (Peru)
  Use of molecular techniques to study complex microbial communities to determine possible maternal oral origin of micro-organisms identified in neonatal gastric aspirates

Related links:
::  UNESCO Programme: Women and Science (More)
::  L'Oréal "For Women in Science" Programme (More)
::  2009 Awards (More)
::  UNESCOPress 2009-19 (More)

• Source:UNESCO SC
• 02-03-2009

• © UNESCO/P. Chiang-Joo - UNESCO-L'Oréal Fellows 2009