The UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences a scientific prize launched in 2012 by

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

to reward scientific research in the

life sciences This list of life sciences comprises the branches of science that involve the scientific study of life – such as microorganisms, plants, and animals including human beings. This science is one of the two major branches of natural science, the ...

leading to improving the quality of human life.

Laureates

2012

* Maged Al-Sherbiny, Egypt * Felix Dapare Dakora, South Africa * Rossana Arroyo, Mexico

2014

Hossein Baharvand Hossein Baharvand is an Iranian stem cell and developmental biologist. He received his B.Sc. in biology from Shiraz University in 1994, and M.Sc. in Developmental Biology from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran in 1996. He then obtained his Ph.D ...

(Iran) * André Bationo (Burkina-Faso) * Instituto de Medicina Tropical von Humboldt (IMT) at

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia Cayetano Heredia University ( es, link=no, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, UPCH; or simply ''Cayetano Heredia'') is a private nonprofit university located in Lima, Peru. It was named in honor of Cayetano Heredia, one of the eminent Peru ...

2015

* Manoel Barral-Netto (Brazil) * Balram Bhargava (India) * Amadou Alpha Sall (Senegal)

2017

* Agricultural Research Organisation at the Volcani Centre Israel *

Rui Luis Gonçalves dos Reis Rui or RUI may refer to: Names * Rui (surname) (芮), a Chinese surname * Rui (given name), a given name Places * Rui (state) (芮), a Chinese state during the Zhou Dynasty * Rui (village), a census town in Kolhapur district, Maharashtra, In ...

(Portugal) *

Ivan Antonio Izquierdo Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ...

(Brazil)

2019

Cato Laurencin Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., FREng SLMH, (St. Lucia, Medal of Honor, Gold) (born January 15, 1959) is an American engineer, physician, scientist, innovator and a University Professor of the University of Connecticut (one of two at the Univer ...

(USA) *

Kevin McGuigan Kevin () is the anglicized form of the Irish masculine given name (; mga, Caoimhghín ; sga, Cóemgein ; Latinized as ). It is composed of "dear; noble"; Old Irish and ("birth"; Old Irish ). The variant ''Kevan'' is anglicized from , an ...

(Ireland) *

Youyou Tu Tu Youyou (; born 30 December 1930) is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist. She discovered artemisinin (also known as , ) and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, sa ...

(China)

2022

Li Lanjuan Li Lanjuan (; born 13 September 1947), also romanized as Lan-Juan Li, is a Chinese epidemiologist and hepatologist. She is a professor at Zhejiang University School of Medicine, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and serves a ...

(China) *

Chad Mirkin Chad Alexander Mirkin (born November 23, 1963) is an American chemist. He is the George B. Rathmann professor of chemistry, professor of medicine, professor of materials science and engineering, professor of biomedical engineering, and profess ...

(USA) *

Christofer Toumazou Christofer "Chris" Toumazou, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FIET, FIEEE, FCGI, FRSM, CEng ( el, Χριστόφορος Τουμάζου, born 5 July 1961) is a British Cypriot electronic engineer. In 2013 he became London's first Regius Profe ...

(England)

References

{{reflist Biology awards Awards established in 2012 UNESCO awards