A Ghanaian scientist has been selected for the L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science programme. The jury selected 20 young female scientists, including Esther Eyram Asare Yeboah among about 330 applicants.
In a press release copied to ghanadusinessnews.com, the young women researchers will receive financial support, through grants of €10,000 for PhD students and €15,000 for post-doctorates, to pursue and consolidate their research work.
The 11th Sub-Saharan Africa Young Talent Awards L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science selected Ms Yeboah, a pharmacist, who is currently studying for her PhD, Biological Sciences, Antimicrobial Research Unit at the University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban in South Africa, where she is focusing her research on a category of bacteria (multi-drug resistant Gram-negative pathogens), which she is studying in patients in a teaching hospital in Ghana.
Her objective is to identify resistance genes to these bacteria in order to gain better understanding of their functioning. She is also a lecturer at a school of pharmacy, where she promotes scientific subjects among her students, especially young girls, the release said.
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