Gabriella Colucci (born 1960s) is an Italian researcher who identifies plant based chemicals for industrial use. She won the EU Women Innovators Award in 2018.
Career
Colucci was born in
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
in the 1960s.
She specialized in agricultural science.
[
In 1994, she went on an exchange to work for a year in Nigeria.]University of California, San Diego
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and at Arena Pharmaceuticals. After ten years, she returned to Italy, where she started her own company.
In June 2018, she won the European Woman Innovator of the Year European Prize for Women Innovators (formerly European Woman Innovator of the Year) is a prize awarded by the European Union.
Laureates 2022
;Women Innovators
*Rocío Arroyo, Spain
*Ciara Clancy, Ireland
*Ninna Granucci, France
;Rising Innovat ...
award in recognition of the 35 chemicals she had identified that have potential applications in cosmetics or agrochemicals. Her Italian company was able to identify these chemicals by interpreting the messages that are sent between cells. She took the 100,000 euro prize. The second place went to Spaniard Alicia Asín Pére whose work relates to the Internet of Things
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and the third to Austrian Walburga Fröhlich
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. The young award went to Norwegian Karen Dolva
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The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Osl ...
, who had devised a robot for socially inactive people. The prizes were awarded by European Commissioner Carlos Moedas
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From 2014 until 2019, Moedas served as European Commissioner covering the portfolio of Research, S ...
and Eva Kaili
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MEP,[ who chairs the European Parliament’s Science and Technology Options Assessment body.]
References
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1960s births
Living people
Scientists from Naples
Italian agronomists