Inspiring Women Awards: these are the nominees in the Science category
In 2021 there were many women who distinguished themselves in Arts, and Science. Sports, Business, Solidarity, and Sustainability. It was not easy to choose, but here are the nominees for another ACTIVA Inspiring Women Award. Soon you will be able to see the winners in each of the categories.
ANA ABECASIS
SAÚDE PÚBLICA
Assistant Professor and Director of the International Public Health and BioStatistics Unit at the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, she leads the Portuguese team that is part of the international project that wants to evaluate the impact of distance learning during the pandemic and of the new coronavirus variants on treatments and vaccines.
JOANA LOBO ANTUNES
PROMOTION OF SCIENCE
With a degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, she has a PhD in Organic Chemistry and teaches Science Communication at UNL. She is coordinator of Communication, Image and Marketing at IST, co-creator of the radio program ’90 Segundos de Ciência’ (Antena 1), winner of the 2019 Gulbenkian Knowledge Award and founder of the Portuguese Science and Technology Communication Network.
RAQUEL SERUCA
ONCOBIOLOGY
The researcher coordinated the application for Norte2020 funds by i3S, which is part of the Porto Comprehensive Cancer Centre consortium, the only comprehensive cancer center in Portugal that received approval for the implementation of the ‘TeamUp4Cancer’ project, which allows shortening the cycle of scientific discovery in cancer, bringing basic research and clinical practice closer together.
ZITA MARTINS
ASTROBIOLOGY
After several years of research at Imperial College in London, she returned to Portugal, where she founded the country’s first Astrobiology laboratory at the Instituto Superior Técnico. She is also co-director of MIT Portugal. Considered one of the world’s leading experts in Astrobiology, she was appointed by the European Space Agency as leader of the scientific community for the Ariel space mission, planned for 2029.
The Awards have the fundamental support of the brands Endesa (which also supports the Sustainability category), Laboratorios Filorga and Hidrolact. Soon, we will announce the winners