"Girls of the Future" - future scholars awarded in Warsaw
Joanna Filipowska, student of biology at the Jagiellonian University, won the competition "Girls of the Future - in the footsteps of Maria Skłodowska-Curie", organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and Elle magazine. The awards were presented in the Library of Warsaw University.
Awarded were students involved in innovative, professional research,
working in international research teams and publishing their findings in
international journals.
The competition aims to support talented
young female researchers and to promote their scientific achievements.
It is open to students of undergraduate, engineering and master’s
studies, who study science, natural sciences, technology or medicine,
and in the course of study are involved in research projects or conduct
their own research.
Awarded researchers are working on gene
therapy, new drugs against cancer, new generation implants, dark matter,
and new enzymes that help remove toxins from the environment.
"Looking
at your careers we will be able to say that Polish science in the
future is as our girls of the future today" - Minister of Science
Barbara Kudrycka told the laureates.
First place winner, fifth
year biology student at the Jagiellonian University Joanna Filipowska
received PLN 20 thousand and the opportunity to participate in European
scientific conference of her choice. The researcher is the author of the
work "Mechanisms of bone tissue formation by human myeloid progenitor
cells cultured in new generation bioactive glass and glass-ceramics".
The results of the young scientist’s research may find applications in
medicine, for example in developing new generation implants.
Second
place went to Aleksandra Fulara from the University of Warsaw. The
student conducts research into the properties of one of polyglutamic
acids as a carrier of anticancer drug.
The third place winner,
also a student the University of Warsaw Bogumiła Gorczyca, conducts
research in the theory of elementary particles and fundamental
interactions. Her work can help answer the question of what matter is
made of.
Both students received PLN 15 thousand and a travel to selected scientific conference in Europe.
Also
awarded in the competition were 5 special honourable mentions 5 (PLN 8
thousand and a travel to a European scientific conference), 2 honourable
mentions (a travel to a European scientific conference) and a special
prize. The latter, in the amount of PLN 14 thousand, went to a
fourth-year student of the Medical University of Warsaw, Małgorzata
Wańczyk. She conducts research aimed at increasing the efficiency of
photodynamic therapy of tumours.
The competition jury, composed
of professors and doctors of science, evaluated the originality of
research, innovative methodology and the possibility of finding
practical applications.
Almost 100 maths, science, natural
sciences and technology students from all over Poland submitted their
papers to this year's second edition of the competition. (PAP)
last modification: 2011-05-30
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