Christine Van Broeckhoven: Europe's winner of the prestigious l'Oréal - Unesco Award for Women in Science

06-Mar-2006

Christine Van Broeckhoven of the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for biotechnology (VIB), the University of Antwerp and the Born-Bunge Institute, receive the prestigious 'l'Oréal-Unesco Award for Women in Science' for her pioneering research into the cause of Alzheimer's disease. The decoration includes a monetary award of $100,000. The l'Oréal-Unesco Award for Women in Science was created in 1998 by Nobel Prize winner Christian de Duve. Each year, the prize is awarded to 5 top women researchers one on each continent who are instrumental in advancing science. This year, some 2000 prominent researchers put forward their candidatures for this award from this large number of candidates, a jury selected the 5 laureates. Christine Van Broeckhoven is the 2006 laureate for Europe.

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