L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science

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The L'Oreal/UNESCO Awards for Women in Science aims to improve the position of women in science by recognizing, every year, outstanding women researchers who have contributed to scientific progress. The awards are a result of a partnership between the French cosmetics company L'Oréal and UNESCO. The same partnership awards research fellowships to young women scientists engaged in exemplary and promising projects (UNESCO-L’ORÉAL Fellowships).

[edit] Recipients

1998 Laureates:

Grance Aladunni L. Taylor (Nigeria): Biochemistry
Myeong Hee-Yu (South Korea): Microbiology
Pascale Cossart (France): Bacteriology
Gloria Montenegro (Chile): Botany

2000 Laureates:

Valerie Mizrahi (South Africa): Molecular biology
Tuneko Okasaki (Japan): Molecular biology
Margarita Salas (Spain): Molecular biology
Eugenia Maria Del Pino Veintimilla (Ecuador): Molecular biology
Joanne Chori (USA): Molecular biology

2001 Laureates:

Adeyinka Gladys Falusi (Nigeria): Molecular genetics
Suzanne Cory (Australia): Molecular genetics
Anne McLaren (United Kingdom): Reproductive biology
Mayana Zatz (Brazil): Molecular biology
Joan Argetsinger Steitz (USA): Molecular biophysics and biochemistry

2002 Laureates:

Nagwa Meguid (Egypt): Genetics applied to the prevention of mental diseases
Indira Nath (India): The treatment of leprosy
Mary Osborn (Germany): Methods for the observation of cell structures
Ana Maria Lopez Colome (Mexico): The prevention of blindness
Shirley Tilghman (Canada, USA): Gene expression and parental origin of chromosomes

2003 Laureates :

Karimat El-Sayed (Egypt): Physics
Fang-hua Li (China): Electron microscopy
Ayse Erzan (Turkey): Condensed matter physics
Mariana Weissmann (Argentina): Computational condensed matter physics
Johanna M.H. Levelt Sengers (USA): Thermodynamics

2004 Laureates:

Jennifer Thomson (South Africa): "For work on transgenic plants resistant to drought and to viral infections, in an effort to respond to the continent's chronic food shortage."
Lúcia Mendonça Previato (Brazil): "For studies which enable progress in the understanding, treatment and prevention of the Chagas disease."
Philippa Marrack (United States) "For the characterization of lymphocyte T functions in the immune system and the discovery of superantigenes.
Nancy Ip (China): "For discoveries concerning proteins which favour the growth and preservation of neurons in brain development."
Christine Petit (France): "For research on the molecular and cellular bases of human hereditary deafness and other sensorial deficiencies."

2005 Laureates:

Zohra ben Lakhdar (Tunisia): "For experiments and models in infrared spectroscopy and its applications to pollution, detection and medicine."
Fumiko Yonezawa (Japan): "Fir pioneering theory and computer simulations on amorphous semiconductors and liquid metals."
Dominique Langevin (France): "For fundamental investigations on detergents, emulsions and foams."
Belita Koiller (Brazil): "For innovative research on electrons in disordered matter such as glass."
Myriam P. Sharachik (USA): "For important experiments on electrical conduction and transitions between metals and insulators."

2006 Laureates:

Habiba Bouhamed Chaabouni (Tunisia): "For her contribution to the analysis and prevention of hereditary disorders."
Jennifer Graves (Australia): "For studies on the evolution of mammalian genomes."
Christine van Broeckhoven (Belgium): "For the genetic investigation of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases."
Esther Orozco (Mexico): "For the discovery of the mechanisms and control of infections by amebas in the tropics."
Pamela Bjorkman (USA): "For the discovery of how the immune system recognizes targets."

[edit] Statistics

Women from the following countries received the awards:

USA: 6 times
France and Brazil: 3 times each
Japan, China, Mexico, Australia, Egypt, Nigera, South Africa and Tunisia: 2 times each
South Korea, Canada, Chile, Spain, Ecuador, Argentina, UK, Turkey, Belgium and India: 1 time each