L'Oreal Philippines FWIS Awards Two Young Exceptional Female Scientists

Today marks another milestone to the female gender as L 'Oreal awards two exceptional female scientists. The awarding was held at Edsa Shangri-La Hotel last July 3, 2012.

L ' Oreal believes that science is the enabler of progress and the women played an essential role about progress. Women now days are making their mark in different fields and yet remain under presented at the top levels of scientific research.

L 'Oreal Philippines and UNESCO renew their joint commitment in promoting scientific
careers and recognized the outstanding women scientist through For Women in Science.

FWIS is one of the prestigious and highly anticipated international programs in the scientific community today.

Dr. Ma. Cecilia G. Conaco received the FWIS National Fellowship grant for her proposal entitled Dynamic Gene Regulation in Marin Sponges. The project aim to identify novel sponge’s genes and the mechanism that allow the organism to monitor and adapt to its environment which will help us better understand the impact of ecological change on marine life.

Dr. Aleta t. Yniquez received the grant for her research proposal entitled Enhancing robustness of plankton models and monitoring systems by understanding fine scale biophysical process. This project intends. To contribute to the improvement of primary production and harmful algal bloom models that are currently being developed in other endeavor, as well as to help validate and increase the reliability of real time monitoring platforms and remotely sensed data that will be part of a bloom forecasting system in target sites in the country. The event was the beginning of the continuous search for the next FWIS National Fellows. The FWIS is now accepting research proposal related to the Life and Material Sciences from applicant who hold or currently pursuing a Masters or Ph.D. Degrees in any field of Life and Material Science and are not more than 45 yrs old. Two fellowship grant worth 400,000.00 each will be given to two deserving women based on the judging criteria of an esteem jury composed of representatives from L 'Oreal Philippines, UNESCO and the DOST. Deadline of submission is March 2013. To know more about FWIS National Fellowship Philippines, log on to the www.fwis.com.ph or email the FWIS Secretariat at FWISSecretariat@eon.com.ph/ call 8935642 loc 136.