Mention Young Woman of Science Award 2022
Irene Sechi, thirty-one years old from Cagliari, PhD candidate in Oncology, at the Department of Oncology, University of Oxford (United Kingdom).
Special mention for the determination and grit with which she undertook her studies in relation to a disease, osteosarcoma, of which she herself was a patient in her adolescence and for her research studies aimed at identifying potential new pharmacological strategies based on the use of so-called “super-intelligent” anticancer drugs which act according to the principle of “synthetic lethality” to be proposed in the treatment of sarcoma and rare pediatric tumours.
The double challenge: being a female scientist and being a scientist woman.
The call for applications for the 2024 DONNA DI SCIENZA Award, VI Edition is online.
[Ihithe, 1940 – Nairobi, 2011] Kenyan environmentalist and activist. In 2004 she was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She was a Kenyan parliamentarian and Assistant Minister for Environment and Natural Resources in the government of President Mwai Kibaki, between January 2003 and November 2005.
A training course for journalists dedicated to scientific fake news as an appendix of the Cagliari FestivalScienza and on the occasion of the awarding of
