Five women from around world handpicked each year by international scientists’ board (illustration) Photo: Shutterstock
Natalie Zetoony, Adit Naor singled out for $100,000 award aiming to empower women to carry on with research without worrying about family stressors
Two female Israeli scientists are contenders for a $100,000 UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) prize from the United Nations and cosmetics company L’Oreal.
The award aims to help women, particularly wives and mothers, working in labs mitigate family stressors.
Five women from around the world are handpicked each year by an international board of scientists for advancements in life sciences and materials engineering.
Dozens of researchers from around the world are currently having their work reviewed. Successful candidates will be endowed with their awards next March.
The Israeli L’Oreal-UNESCO council made known Israel’s two nominees earlier: Natalie Zetoony and Adit Naor.
Zetoony is testing different ways to use “magnetic bacteria” in industrial and medical settings, and Naor is researching gene exchange in single-cell organisms that look like bacteria (but aren’t) for medical purposes.
The Women in Science Awards have been conferred to 64 scientists from 30 countries for the past 15 years.
Source: ShalomLife.com
