{"id":661,"date":"2019-12-02T21:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T21:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/?p=661"},"modified":"2020-03-26T16:18:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:18:34","slug":"loreal-unesco-for-women-in-science-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/2019\/12\/02\/loreal-unesco-for-women-in-science-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"[:en]L&#8217;Or\u00e9al-UNESCO For Women in Science Programme[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:en]<em>Congratulations Ms Carine Kunsevi-Kilola and Georgina Nyawo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ms Carine Kunsevi-Kilola (left) and Georgina Nyawo (right) at the L&#8217;Or\u00e9al-UNESCO For Women in Science Programme &#8211; Young Talents Sub-Saharan Africa Award in Senega<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The For Women in Science program, led by the L&#8217;Or\u00e9al Foundation in partnership with UNESCO, aims to promote women in the field of scientific research. The regional Young Talents Sub-Saharan Africa program recognises young female researchers&nbsp;contributing through their work to building the continent&#8217;s future<\/p>\n<p>Among the Young Talent Sub-Saharan Africa 2019 awardees are two of MBHG finest, namely:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Merriweather Sans\">CARINE KUNSEVI-KILOLA \u2013 PhD candidate originating from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her research projects involves characterization&nbsp;of Human alveolar macrophages and monocytes derived macrophages responses to <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis<\/em> in tuberculosis close contacts with and without Type 2 diabetes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>GEORGINA NYAWO \u2013 <span style=\"font-family: Merriweather Sans\">PhD candidate originating from Zimbabwe. Her research projects involves assessing the microbiome in patients with tuberculosis to develop novel diagnostic interventions and therapeutics.<\/span>[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:en]Congratulations Ms Carine Kunsevi-Kilola and Georgina Nyawo Ms Carine Kunsevi-Kilola (left) and Georgina Nyawo (right) at the L&#8217;Or\u00e9al-UNESCO For Women in Science Programme &#8211; Young Talents Sub-Saharan Africa Award in Senega The For Women in Science program, led by the L&#8217;Or\u00e9al Foundation in partnership with UNESCO, aims to promote women&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10949,"featured_media":662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-achievements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/mbhgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}