Professor Ahmed Zewail, President of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards Jury, today announced the five Laureates of the 2011 programme. Each year, five outstanding women scientists – one per continent – are honoured for the contributions of their research, the strength of their commitments and their impact on society. With the Marie Curie Nobel Centenary being celebrated in 2011, this year the For Women in Science Programme has a particularly strong resonance, placing women and chemistry at the heart of science today...

3 QUESTIONS FOR...Günter Blobel, eminent professor at the Rockefeller University in New York, received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1999. Today his research is taking cellular biology to new levels. For the past three years, this German biologist has been President of the "For Women in Science" Awards Jury...

Professor Lourdes J. Cruz from the Marine Science Institute in the Philippines, has been awarded 2010 Laureate for Asia and Pacific ! In the 1970s, Professor Lourdes J. Cruz was one of the first to research conotoxins, the toxins of marine snails living in tropical seas that use toxic venom to paralyse their prey. By elucidating...

Professor Anne Dejean-Assémat, Research Director INSERM at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, has been awarded 2010 Laureate for Europe ! Each year nearly 8 million people die from cancer worldwide. To counter this plague, Professor Anne Dejean-Assémat has devoted her research to the study of the molecular and cellular mechanisms....

Professor Alejandra Bravo, researcher at the Institute of Biotechnology at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma of Mexico, has been awarded 2010 Laureate for Latin America ! “Green solutions for a sustainable world” is the motto of the Mexican scientist Alejandra Bravo. This internationally renowned biologist is working ...