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Awarded the 7th Chinese Young Women in Science Fellowship |
Professor Dan Yang, HKU Morningside Professor in Chemical Biology and Chair Professor in Chemistry, was awarded the 7th Chinese Young Women in Science Fellowship.
Professor Yang is the first woman scientist in the Hong Kong and Macau region receiving the honour.
The fellowship was founded by the All-China Women's Federation, China Association for Science and Technology,
the UNESCO China National Committee, and L'Oreal China, which is an extension of the L'Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science Partnership.
Ten top young woman scientists on the Mainland were selected for the award in 2010, which is also the first time scientists from the Hong Kong and Macau region were invited to contest,
with each higher education institution nominating one candidate to contest with a total of 165 nominees from all over the country.
Professor Yang and her team developed efficient and enantioselective syntheses of triptolide, a natural product isolated from Chinese medicinal herb Lei Gong Teng, and identified structural features important for biological activities.
They are probing the interactions of triptolide with its cellular receptors, which will lead to better understanding of cell growth regulation and immune responses as well as discovery of new anticancer, anti-inflammatory, and immunosuppressive drugs.
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TWAS Announces 2010 Prize Winners |
18 October. TWAS has announced the winners of the TWAS Prizes for 2010 at the Academy's 21st General Meeting in Hyderabad,
India. Each TWAS Prize carries a cash award of USD15,000. The winners will be asked to lecture about their research at TWAS's 22nd General Meeting in Morocco in 2011,
where they will also receive a medal and the prize money.
YANG Dan, Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong, China, and Santanu BHATTACHARYA, Department of Organic Chemistry,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, share the 2010 TWAS Prize in Chemistry.
Yang is honoured for her significant contributions to the development of novel methods for the synthesis of bioactive natural products and probes for biomedical research. Bhattacharya is recognized for his path-breaking contributions to bio-organic and supramolecular chemistry,
in particular the molecular design of lipids for gene delivery, DNA-recognizing molecules, micelles, vesicles, low molecular mass gelators and nanocomposites.
For more details, please visit http://twas.ictp.it/news-in-home-page/news/twas-announces-2010-prize-winners
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