- Title
- Nyokong wins Prestigious L'Oreal - Unesco Award for Woman in Science
- Creator
- Peter, Kerry
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:7192
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006356
- Description
- Rhodes University’s Professor Tebello Nyokong, has won the Africa-Arab State 2009 L’Oréal-Unesco Award for Women in Science for her pioneering research into photodynamic therapy which looks at harnessing light for cancer therapy and environmental clean-up. Nyokong is the third South African Scientist to receive this award, and reaffirms Rhodes’s place as one of the top research institutions in the country. University of Cape Town’s Professor Jennifer Thompson was previously recognised for her work on genetic engineering while Wits University’s Professor Valerie Mizrahi was recognised for her tuberculosis research.
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Rhodes University
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