The L’Oréal Foundation gives the floor to young women who will be the scientists of tomorrow

Paris, 12 October - On 11 October 2017, the L’Oréal Foundation organised the “Génération Jeunes Chercheuses” (Generation Young Researchers) interactive conference, with inspiring presentations, round-table discussions and interviews, followed by the presentation of the 2017 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowships in partnership with the Académie des sciences and French National Commission for UNESCO.

Open to the general public and the scientific community, this event was honoured by the presence of distinguished guests such as Marlène Schiappa, Secretary of State to the Prime Minister in charge of gender equality, but was also broadcast live on the programme's Facebook page and that of Sciences et Avenir magazine.

AN EVENT IN HONOUR OF SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE

The L’Oréal Foundation gave 30 young female scientists with an excellent record a grant (€15,000 for doctoral researchers and €20,000 for postdoctoral researchers) to help them at a pivotal time in their career.

“For 10 years, the L’Oréal Foundation has been working to support and develop the potential of women throughout the world. Through the For Women in Science programme, we have already supported more than 2,700 female scientists to help them break the ‘glass ceiling’”, declared Alexandra Palt, General Manager of the L’Oréal Foundation.

The thirty L’Oréal Women in Science fellowship winners were selected from more than 1,000 candidates, by an independent jury composed of academics who wanted to reward the excellence of their academic level, the originality of their scientific project, but also their desire to transmit their passion to the younger generation.

THE L’OREAL-UNESCO WOMEN IN SCIENCE LAUREATES FRANCE 2017

• Laure Ciesla – Astrophysics Department of the Saclay CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission)

• Caroline Dissaux – ICUBE Laboratory of the University of Strasbourg

• Indira Fabre – Ecole Normale Supérieure - P.A.S.T.E.U.R Laboratory and Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris (Paris Chemistry Research Institute)

• Juliette Fedry – Structural virology unit of the Institut Pasteur

• Juliane Glaser – Genetics and Developmental Biology Unit, Institut Curie, PSL

• Sarah Houver – Pierre Aigrain Laboratory, Ecole Normale Supérieure

• Adèle James – Laboratory of Integrative Biology of Marine Models of the Roscoff Marine Station

• Lucie Jarrige – Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN - Institute for the chemistry of natural substances) / Paris-Saclay University

• Ie-Rang Jeon - Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (Rennes institute of chemical sciences)

• Georgiana Juravle – ImpAct Laboratory of the Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre

• Zoé Koenig – LOCEAN of the Pierre et Marie Curie University

• Fani Koukouli – Integrative neurobiology of cholinergic systems laboratory, Institut Pasteur

• Ai Ing Lim – Innate immunity unit, Inserm U1223, lnstitut Pasteur, Paris Diderot University (Paris 7)

• Antonia Manduca – Physiopathology of synaptic plasticity laboratory of the Institut de Neurobiologie de la Mediterranée (INMED - Mediterranean Institute of Neurobiology) in Marseilles

• Sophie Marbach – Statistical physics laboratory of the École Normale Supérieure, PSL

• Emilie Maurice – Leprince Ringuet laboratory of the École Polytechnique

• Marijana Milicevic – Centre des Nanosciences et de Nanostructures (C2N - Nanosciences and nanostructures centre), CNRS

• Amandine Molliex – Institut Jacques Monod of the Paris-Diderot University

• Blandine Monel – Virus and Immunity Unit of the Institut Pasteur

• Aude Nyadanu – Laboratory of organic synthesis, Ecole Polytechnique & P.A.S.T.E.U.R Laboratory, Ecole normale supérieure

• Anna-Maria Pappa – Bioelectronic Laboratory, Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne

• Eloïse Pariset – BioChip and BioPackaging Laboratory of the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA - French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission)

• Sandrine Péron – Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (Paris Institute of Earth Physics), Paris 7 University

• Tahina Ralitera – IT and Mathematics Laboratory, University of Reunion Island

• Jenny Sorce – Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory of the University of Strasbourg

• Annalaura Stingo – LAGA (Analysis, Geometry and Applications Laboratory) of the Paris 13 University and Institut Galilée

• Emilie Tisserond – Solid-state Physics Laboratory of the Paris-Sud XI / Paris-Saclay University

• Séverine Toussaint – CR2P - UMR 7207 Laboratory / Paris Diderot University

• Muriel Tyrman – SATIE Laboratory of the ENS Paris-Saclay

• Pascale Vonäsch – Molecular Microbial Pathogenesis Unit of the Institut Pasteur

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