Fellows in the News

This is the news archive for the L’Oréal Australia For Women in Science Fellowships. This is just a taste of the past Fellows that have gone on to author papers in major journals and win awards at the Prime Minister’s Science Prizes, the Australian Museum Eureka prizes and the Lawrence Creative Prize.

2011 Fellows update

24 April 2012

The three L’Oréal Fellows for 2011 have been busy since they were announced on 23 August 2011. Eve McDonald-Madden is in France, working with researchers at the National Institute for Agricultural Research to develop new strategies for the management of the impacts of climate change.

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New Fellowships for Young New Zealand Women in Science

3 April 2012

Issued on behalf of L’Oréal New Zealand The L’Oréal UNESCO For Women in Science international awards are a world recognised programme, present in 180 countries. For the first time this year, a National Fellowship programme is open to young New Zealand and Australian women scientists, with three NZ$31,737 (AU $25,000) fellowships on offer. Applications are now [...]

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2010 fellow wins Inaugural Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize

26 October 2011

The winner of the Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize, for her lung cancer research, is Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat, from Melbourne’s Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI). Having unravelled key information on how and why breast stem cells contribute to the progression of breast cancer, she is now turning to the challenge of lung cancer.

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Mentor of L’Oréal Fellow wins Nobel Prize

10 October 2011

Tamara Davis, 2009 L’Oréal Australia Fellow tells of how she felt when she heard her mentors had won the Nobel Prize. Tuesday morning found me dancing in excitement when I heard the news that Brian Schmidt, Saul Perlmutter, and Adam Riess had won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of the acceleration of the expansion [...]

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Revealing the dark side – in Tasmania this week

26 September 2011

What we see in the night sky is only five per cent of the Universe. So what’s the other 95 per cent of the Universe made of – a young physicist has the answers across Tasmania this week. One of Australia’s leading young physicists will reveal the dark secrets of the Universe in Tasmania this [...]

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L’Oréal helps out with rewarding research

1 June 2011

Life on other planets, sex determination in marsupials, the links between genetics and mental health—that’s the breadth of research spanned by the four Australians and one New Zealander, life scientists all, who have become L’Oréal Laureate fellows since the awards were inaugurated in 1998. In 2009, one of these women, Elizabeth Blackburn, went on to [...]

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Australian Fellows win Eureka Prizes

17 August 2010

2008 Fellow Amanda Barnard and 2010 Fellow Rowena Martin have been awarded Eureka Prizes for their research achievements. Amanda has won the 2010 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research for her work on predicting properties of nanoparticles in sunscreens. The $10,000 prize is sponsored by UNSW and presented by the Australia Museum. You can read more [...]

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Fellowship winners make cancer their focus

5 March 2010

Two outstanding female scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have been awarded research fellowships worth $1.75 million to continue their cancer research.

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Prime Minister recognises L’Oréal Fellow

6 November 2009

2008 Fellow Amanda Barnard has won the 2009 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year for her work on modelling and predicting the shape, structure and stability of nanoparticles under different environmental conditions. The AUD$50,000 prize is one of the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science.

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L’Oréal Australia Fellow launches sexual health study

4 March 2008

One in ten Australian women suffer from bacterial vaginosis (BV). But how is it spread? First year female students at the University of Melbourne are being sought to take part in a study on bacterial vaginosis (BV), a common but poorly understood known genital disease. The study, which starts today, has been initiated by L’Oréal [...]

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