The L’ORÉAL-UNESCO For Women in Science partnership announced the five exceptional women scientists from around the world who will receive the 2010 L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards in the Life Sciences.

An international network of nearly 1,000 scientists nominates the candidates for each year’s awards. The five laureates are then selected at a meeting of the jury presided by Pr. Günter Blobel, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1999.
The 2010 European laureate is Anne Dejean-Assémat, Professor at the Pasteur Institute in France, for her contributions to our understanding of leukaemia and liver cancers.

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