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<div><b>De:</b> OWSD Secretariat <owsd@owsd.net></div><div><b>Enviado:</b> miércoles, 30 de abril de 2025, 11:40:34 GMT-3</div><div><b>Asunto:</b> [OWSD Newsletter] The OWSD Observer: April 2025</div><div><br></div>
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2025 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation
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winners of our Short Talks, Big
Impacts competition, introduce
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women scientists win the
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Inclusive Health</font></p>
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<td> <img style="display: block; font-family: merriweather; font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; background-color: rgb(183, 239, 211); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 660px; max-width: 800px;" src="https://owsd.net/sites/default/files/All%20awardees%20photo_0.jpg" border="0" alt="2025 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Award winners" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"></td>
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Badrasawi</b> (Palestine), <b>Alejandra
Paniagua-Avila (Guatemala)</b>,
<b>Sarmila Tandukar (Nepal)</b>,
<b>Reem Obaydo</b> (Syria), and
<b>Halima Sumayya Twabi</b>
(Malawi) have been awarded the
2025 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation
Award for Early-Career Women
Scientists in the Developing
World for their contributions to
research in inclusive health,
advancing UN Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG) 3, which
aims to ensure healthy lives and
promote well-being. The research
conducted by this year's winners
spans a diverse range of
critical health issues, from
innovative approaches to
maternal and child health,
sustainable pharmaceutical
analysis, environmental health
interventions, and advancements
in mental health care. Their
work not only addresses some of
the most pressing health
challenges in their respective
regions, but also serves as a
beacon of leadership, mentoring
and community engagement.</p>
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March 14, OWSD held the exciting
finale competition of its Short
Talks, Big Impacts competition,
a live event where OWSD members
presented their diverse research
in a dynamic 3-minute format.
The competition was designed to
emphasize the importance for
scientists of effective
presentation and communications
skills, and especially of how to
highlight the contribution their
research makes to solving local
and global challenges. Four
winners were selected from 11
finalists, who all were selected
by audience member vote during
three previous regional
competitions in Africa, Latin
America & the Caribbean, and
Asia and the Arab region.</p>
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15 women scientists
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Career fellowships
gathered at the OWSD
Secretariat in Trieste,
Italy, for their
fellowship orientation
workshop, which combined
practical sessions on
grant management with
sessions aimed to
broaden fellows'
perspectives beyond the
lab, from intellectual
property, to
communicating science,
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14 women were announced
as the second cohort of
OWSD WISDOM scholars.
The scholarship
recipients are all
refugee and displaced
women scholars from
Syria, Afghanistan, and
Palestine, and will be
funded to undertake
Master's degrees in STEM
subjects at Istanbul
Aydin University in
Türkiye. They were
selected from a
competitive pool of 40
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experience. It
gave me more
confidence and
was a wonderful
opportunity to
share my
research with a
global audience.</a></p>
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scientist Myo Ma
Ma Than, a 2004
OWSD PhD fellow,
is working to
empower women in
Myanmar’s
agricultural
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farming. Seventy
percent of the
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population lives
in rural areas,
and their
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female role is
invisible,” she
says — something
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<span style="color:#2b7bb9;">#GirlsInICT</span> Day by sharing my work on
building trustworthy AI,
because the future of
technology needs voices
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this corner we highlight some of
the most exciting recent
achievements of our fellows,
alumnae, and awardees. Way to go,
ladies!</p>
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<li><strong><b>Mary Adjepong</b></strong>,
a 2022 Early Career fellow from
Ghana, was promoted to Senior
Lecturer at Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and
Technology (KNUST). She
additionally received a research
award from the KNUST research
fund for a project to improve
food safety of fruits in Ghana.</li>
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<li><strong><b>Paola Andrea
Alvizuri Tintaya</b></strong>,
a 2023 Early Career Fellow from
Bolivia, was a keynote speaker
at two events organized by the
Bolivian National Chapter of
OWSD: the ‘Charlando con
Cientificas 2025’ event in April
2025, aimed to motivate young
women to enter science, and the
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1029466352548310&id=100064548645618&mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=sLikAQCyx2bG0w4t#" style="color:#005E31;text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> ‘Beyond
Limits: The Legacy of Women’</a>
event organized on the occasion
of International Day of Women
and Girls in Science (IDWGS), in
cooperation with UN Women. She
was also featured in an <a href="https://www.ucb.edu.bo/mujeres-en-la-ciencia-ucb-fortalece-su-compromiso-con-la-investigacion/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIkTn5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUm3CDDtXFbIBRpfe5LnYoUO-U14cbrbdfYpwGn53Lf3C0k48knA7tppkA_aem_q_YCeXPhaJpF_hsMV9MQbA" style="color:#005E31;text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">article</a>
and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thms7hM9clw" style="color:#005E31;text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">video</a>
produced by her university for
IDWGS, as part of their
strengthened commitment to
supporting women in science.</li>
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<li><strong><b>Nana Ama
Mireku-Gyimah</b></strong>,
a 2014 PhD fellow from Ghana,
was inducted as a Fellow of the
<a href="https://wapcpharm.org/" style="color:#005E31;text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">West
African Postgraduate College
of Pharmacists (WAPCP)</a>,
having successfully completed
training to qualify as a
specialist in the area of Drug
Production and Quality
Assurance, with sub-specialty in
Herbal Medicine Production and
Quality Assurance. She is one of
only two fellows inducted with
this sub-specialty, the first of
its kind in the sub-region. She
was also elected Vice Chair of
the Faculty of Drug Production
and Quality Assurance of the
WAPCP, and was awarded best
podium presenter at the <a href="https://wapcpharm.org/annual-general-meeting-scientific-symposium/" style="color:#005E31;text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">2025
Annual General Meeting and
Scientific Symposium</a> of
the WAPCP for her oral
presentation on 'Evaluation of
quality and adulteration with
Phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors
of eleven popular male
sexual-enhancing herbal products
on the Ghanaian market'.</li>
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<li><strong><b>Natalia Montellano
Duran</b></strong>, a 2019
Early Career fellow from
Bolivia, and <b>Anna Msigwa</b>,
a 2022 Early Career fellow from
Tanzania, were accepted to the <a href="https://globalyoungacademy.net/" style="color:#005E31;text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Global
Young Academy</a>, and will
participate in the annual
meeting of the GYA in India. </li>
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<strong><b>Alice Nabatanzi</b></strong>,
a 2022 Early Career fellow from
Uganda, was promoted to Senior
Lecturer in the Department of
Plant Sciences and Biotechnology
at Makerere University. She was
also <a href="https://owsd.net/sites/default/files/Makerere-CoNAS-Dr-Alice-Nabatanzi-Phyto-Nutra-Chicken-Feed-Formulation_copy.jpg" style="color:#005E31;text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">featured
on the University of Makerere
website</a> for her
development of a novel chicken
feed made with a cocktail of
bacteriocins and phytobiotics,
intended to curb the use of
antibiotic growth promoters in
chicken.</li>
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<li><strong><b>Antonella Rivera</b></strong>,
a 2024 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation
Award winner, and <strong><b>Mayra
Núñez-Vallecillo</b></strong>,
a 2021 PhD fellow, both from
Honduras, co-authored an article
on <a href="https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.70030" style="color:#005E31;text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">‘Drivers
and potential solutions for
transnational Illegal,
Unreported and Unregulated
(IUU) fishing in the Gulf of
Honduras’</a>, published in <i>People
and Nature</i>. Their research
focused on the Cayman Crown
reef, a transboundary area
shared with Guatemala and
Belize, and combined household
surveys and multi-stakeholder
workshops involving fishers,
NGOs, and government agencies.</li>
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<li><strong><b>Tahsina Farah Sanam</b></strong>,
a 2023 Early Career Fellow from
Bangladesh, <a style="color:#005E31;text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">received
the 'Dream Winner Women Award
2025'</a> in the category of
Outstanding Contribution to AI
and Smart Healthcare Innovation
from business magazine <i>Arthakantha</i>,
in collaboration with NRB World
Organization and <i>Business
America</i> magazine. She was
additionally promoted to
Professor in the Institute of
Appropriate Technology,
Bangladesh University of
Engineering and Technology
(BUET), and was <a style="color:#005E31;text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">invited
to DBC New television news
channel</a> to talk about
challenges facing women in STEM
and how to overcome them.</li>
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<strong><b>Induni Wathsala
Sirwardane</b></strong>, a
2023 Early Career fellow from
Sri Lanka, <a style="color:#005E31;text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">received
the Vice Chancellor’s Award
for the highest amount of
external research grants in
the Faculty of Computing and
Technology at the University
of Kelaniya</a> for the year
2024. She was also elected
Secretary of the Chemical
Sciences Section of the <a href="https://www.slaas.lk/" style="color:#005E31;text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sri Lanka
Association for the
Advancement of Sciences</a>
for the year 2025, and was
elected to the executive
committee of the <a style="color:#005E31;text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sri
Lankan National Chapter of
OWSD</a> for 2025-2027.</li>
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<li><strong><b>Patience Tugume</b></strong>,
a 2023 Early Career fellow from
Uganda, received the <a href="https://news.mak.ac.ug/2025/01/75th-graduation-ceremony-conas-presents-best-performing-student-in-the-sciences/ " style="color:#005E31;text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Vice
Chancellors research
excellence award at the 75th
graduation ceremony of
Makerere University</a>, in
recognition of exemplary
contribution to the body of
knowledge through scholarly
publication. She was
additionally promoted to the
position of Senior Lecturer in
the Department of Plant Sciences
and Biotechnology at Makerere
University.</li>
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OWSD Colombia
National Chapter
invited members in
January to
participate in an
<a href="https://owsd.net/news/news-events/invitaci%C3%B3n-las-mentor%C3%ADas-universitarias-con-cient%C3%ADficas-de-la-owsd-colombia" style="text-decoration:none;color:#FBC328;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">8-week mentoring
programme</a>
for university
students. The
initiative will
provide free
mentoring in
science and
engineering
fields, as part of
the national
chapter's
commitment to
training new
generations of
scientists. The
chapter also
hosted, in
cooperation with
the General
Maritime
Directorate
(DIMAR), a
dialogue on <a href="https://owsd.net/news/news-events/por-un-mundo-con-mas-mujeres-y-ni%C3%B1as-en-la-ciencia-transformando-la-historia-de" style="text-decoration:none;color:#FBC328;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">'For a world with more
women and girls
in science,
transforming the
history of our
country,'</a> in
February, and
organized a panel
on <a href="https://owsd.net/news/news-events/liderazgo-en-ciencia-y-salud-mental-el-cuidado-del-bienestar-psicol%C3%B3gico-en-equipos" style="text-decoration:none;color:#FBC328;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">'Leadership in Science
and Mental
Health: Caring
for
Psychological
Well-being in
Work Teams'</a>,
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National
Chapter, in
collaboration
with the
Faculty of
Chemistry and
Pharmacy at
the National
Autonomous
University of
Honduras, held
the <a href="https://owsd.net/news/news-events/iii-simposio-nacional-de-mujeres-en-ciencia-owsd-honduras-2025" style="text-decoration:none;color:#FBC328;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">3rd
National
Symposium on
Women in
Science in
Honduras</a>
on February
11, in the
framework of
the
International
Day of Women
and Girls in
Science and
the
International
Year of
Quantum
Technology
(IYQ). The
Symposium was
titled
'Accelerating
Innovation and
Empowerment of
Honduran Women
in STEAM.'</p>
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National Chapter
shared two video
messages for its
members from
influential
Pakistani women on
the occasion of
International Day
of Women and Girls
in Science in
February: from <a href="https://youtu.be/WbDmzBmI5uY?si=aWvdpaXuqUh8WvIR" style="text-decoration:none;color:#FBC328;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Huma Baqai, Rector of
Millennium
Institute of
Technology and
Entrepreneurship</a>,
and <a href="https://youtu.be/210eifbEhM0?si=rQAfYFbAfny0iBNy" style="text-decoration:none;color:#FBC328;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Zahra Hasan,
distinguished
professor at the
Department of
Pathology and
Laboratory
Medicine, Aga
Khan University
Hospital,
Karachi</a>.
They also released
a <a href="https://youtu.be/ssq2OyHKwOA?si=xl9RTUyXuD2bLTVk" style="text-decoration:none;color:#FBC328;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">video tribute</a> to the
dedicated
executive council
members, women,
and girls who play
an integral role
in organizing OWSD
Pakistan National
Chapter events
with highlights
from events across
Pakistan in 2024.
In April, they
organized an
exclusive lecture
for their members
by Dr. Hyun-Goo
Kim on <a href="https://owsd.net/news/news-events/owsd-pakistan-lecture-series-investment-future-positional-cloning-era-next" style="text-decoration:none;color:#FBC328;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">'Positional Cloning in
the Era of
Next-Generation
Sequencing:
Advancing
Disease Gene
Discovery'</a>.
In this talk
hosted at the
University of
Karachi, Dr. Kim
explored how
modern sequencing
technologies have
transformed
positional
cloning, enabling
faster and more
precise
identification of
disease-associated
genes.</p>
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IDWGS</i> </p>
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series of
scientific
seminars by and
for members, with
a seminar on the
topic of <a href="https://owsd.net/news/news-events/owsd-nigeria-national-chapter-presents-radiation-risks-associated-x-ray" style="text-decoration:none;color:#FBC328;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">'Radiation Risks
Associated with
x-Ray
Examinations in
Children from a
Tertiary Health
Facility in Port
Harcourt'</a>,
by Lilian C.
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