The L'Oréal-UNESCO ''For Women in Science'' International Awards, created in 1998, aim to improve the position of

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by recognizing outstanding women researchers who have contributed to scientific progress. The awards are a result of a partnership between the Foundation of the French company

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and the

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(UNESCO) and carry a grant of $100,000

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for each laureate. This award is also known as the L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Awards. Each year an international jury awards five laureates, selecting one from each of the following regions: *

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and the

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. * Asia and the Pacific *

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and the

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(since 2000) Eligibility requirements alternate every other year based on scientific discipline with laureates in

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recognized in even years and laureates in

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and

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recognized in odd years (since 2003). The same partnership awards the UNESCO-L'Oréal International Fellowships, providing up to $40,000

in funding over two years to fifteen young women scientists engaged in exemplary and promising research projects. The Fellowship awards began in 2000 with a one-year award of US$20,000 and offered ten awards until 2003. In 2003, the number of awards increased to 15 and then in 2006, the grant period extended to two years and the amount of the award increased to US$40,000. In 2015, the name ''Rising Talent Grants'' was implemented. As of 2023, 7 L'Oréal-UNESCO laureates have won also a

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, these are:

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard (; born 20 October 1942) is a German developmental biologist and a 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate. She is the only woman from Germany to have received a Nobel Prize in the sciences. N� ...

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(1995 - unlike the others, she had won the Nobel Prize before receiving this International Award),

Elizabeth Blackburn Elizabeth Helen Blackburn (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the ...

(2008),

Ada Yonath Ada E. Yonath (, ; born 22 June 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for B ...

Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

(2009),

Emmanuelle Charpentier Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (; born 11 December 1968) is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. As of 2015, she has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. In 2018, sh ...

in Chemistry (2020),

Jennifer Doudna Jennifer Anne Doudna (; born February 19, 1964) is an American biochemist who has pioneered work in CRISPR gene editing, and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics. She received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, wit ...

in Chemistry (2020),

Katalin Karikó Katalin "Kati" Karikó (, ; born 17 January 1955) is a Hungarian-American biochemist who specializes in ribonucleic acid (RNA)-mediated mechanisms, particularly in vitro-Transcription (biology), transcribed messenger RNA (mRNA) for protein repla ...

in Physiology or Medicine (2023) and

Anne L'Huillier Anne Geneviève L'Huillier (; born 16 August 1958) is a French physicist. She is a professor of atomic physics at Lund University in Sweden. She leads an attosecond physics group which studies the movements of electrons in real time, which is ...

Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

(2023).

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Special tributes

On the 25th anniversary of the award (2023), a special tribute was given to three researchers in exile, who were or had been forced to interrupt their scientific career in their home country and have pursued their career abroad. A financial reward and a medal of honor was awarded to Mursal Dawodi (artificial intelligence) from

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, Ann Al Sawoor (mathematics) from

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, and Marycelin Baba (molecular biology) from

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International Rising Talents

From 2000 to 2014, fellowships were awarded yearly to doctoral and post-doctoral women to allow them to pursue their research in host laboratories outside their home countries. Established in 2015, the International Rising Talent Grants are awarded annually to 15 PhD students and post-doctoral Fellows. They replace the former International Fellowships.

Laureates

* List of L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Rising Talents laureates

Regional programmes

"Women in Science" has national and regional awards. * L’Oréal Korea-UNESCO for Women in Science Award

References

External links

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Special tributes

International Rising Talents

Laureates

Regional programmes

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References

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