Fellows
The L’Oréal Australia For Women in Science Fellowships have been awarded each year since 2007.
In 2012 the Fellowships were opened up to New Zealand and the prize value increased to AU$25,000.
The links below summarise the work of the Fellows at the time they received their Fellowships.
2012
Dr Suetonia Palmer, University of Otago
Giving patients more control of their lives
Dr Baohua Jia, Swinburne University of Technology
More efficient solar cells with quantum dots
Dr Kylie Mason, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research/Royal Melbourne Hospital
New treatments for blood cancers
2011
Georgina Such, The University of Melbourne
A smarter way to deliver drugs
Eve McDonald-Madden, The University of Queensland/CSIRO
Can we save the tiger with mathematics?
Tracy Ainsworth, James Cook University
The complex life of coral
2010
Deanna D’Alessandro, University of Sydney
Mopping up gases
Rowena Martin, The Australian National University, Canberra/The University of Melbourne
Fighting back against malaria
Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
How does breast cancer start?
2009
Marnie Blewitt, The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne
Reading the Genome
Zenobia Jacobs, University of Wollongong
How did we get here?
Tamara Davis, University of Queensland/University of Copenhagen
On the hunt for dark energy
2008
Angela Moles, The University of New South Wales
Big ecology: from tundra to rainforest, desert to savanna
Amanda Barnard, The University of Melbourne
Are nanoparticles safe?
Natalie Borg, Monash University
Crystallising a career in immunology
Erika Cretney, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Unravelling the complexity of the immune system
2007
Jenny Gunton, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Could Vitamin D have a role in diabetes?
Ilana Feain , Australia Telescope National Facility
School girls join study to understand black holes and the birth of stars
Sarah Pryke, Macquarie University
Life and love amongst the finches
Catriona Bradshaw, Monash University/University of Melbourne
New ways of looking at old diseases
