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Indian scientist wins UNESCO award

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI March 8. Medical scientist, Indira Nath, has bagged the prestigious UNESCO/L'Oreal award for her work in developing medication and vaccines for leprosy treatment. The $20,000 award is given annually to honour women scientists on International Women's Day.

Prof. Indira Nath is among the five scientists who have won the "women in science" award this year. The other winners are: Shirley Tilghman, the first woman President of Princeton University, U.S.; Nagwa Meguid, a geneticist from Egypt; Anna Maria Lopez-Colome of Mexico and Mary Osborn of Germany.

Prof. Tilghman was awarded for her research in cloning, Prof. Meguid for her work on prevention of mental illness and Down's Syndrome, Prof. Lopez-Colome for her studies on diseases of retina and Prof. Osborn for developing immunflourescence miscroscopy, which has a wide variety of applications especially in the diagnosis of tumours.

At the ceremony, which took place at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, Marianne Grunberg Manago was presented with the lifetime achievement award for her contributions to science, in particular for her now famous work on genetic code. A former president of the French Academy of Sciences, Prof. Manago is presently Emeritus Director of Research at CNRS, the French agency for scientific research.

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