A global day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, while also making a call to action for strengthening gender equality and accelerating women’s empowerment.
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Women in science
From the Director-General
What an incredibly exciting time! Who would have thought that in under a year a whole range of vaccines against a new infectious agent would be rolled out across the world? This perfectly exemplifies the critical role that science plays in responding to the different challenges the world faces.
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ICGEB Plant Systems Biology Group Leader joins Cape Town
Dr. Lara Donaldson has joined ICGEB Cape Town as Group Leader to head the “Plant Systems Biology” laboratory.
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ICGEB / ELETTRA Sincrotrone Trieste International Fellowship Programme – Call open
ICGEB and Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste are offering joint Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Life Sciences to highly motivated scientists wishing to pursue their studies in a world-class environment.
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ICGEB Alumni for Girls in STEM
International days are occasions to raise awareness on issues of major concern, to mobilise institutional will and resources to address global problems and to celebrate and reinforce the achievements of humanity.
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ICGEB for UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science, 11 February
Read about our initiatives to mark this year’s UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
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Dr Liz Njuguna awarded South Africa DSI NRF Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr Liz Njuguna, ICGEB Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cape Town ICGEB Biopesticides Group, has recently been awarded a South African Department of Science and Innovation / National Research Foundation Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowship.
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In Nature this week: Federica Benvenuti on ‘Where I work’
Federica Benvenuti form ICGEB Trieste, has been interviewed by the Journal Nature for the Where I work article series.
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Meet ICGEB alumna Bruna Marini, Ulisse Biomed Cofounder & Scientific+Quality Manager
Bruna Marini, PhD is an entrepreneur and molecular biologist. She received her PhD in Molecular Biology from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa; her research activities were performed at the Laboratory of Molecular Medicine at the ICGEB in Trieste.
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Celebrating International Women’s Day at ICGEB
We asked our Principal Investigators for recent updates from their labs on the vital contribution to science by women – a better way to get to know some of the projects and people behind our science. Here are some of their stories.
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International Summit on Women in STEM
January 2020: “Visualizing the Future: New Skylines” – the Department of Biotechnology DBT, Government of India and ICGEB New Delhi organised an International Summit on Women in STEM.
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Renu Swarup on ICGEB and the Women in Science Programme
Dr. Renu Swarup, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India first announced a new initiative for women in science at the ICGEB Symposium held in New Delhi in 2019.
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