L'Oréal-UNESCO Prize "For Women in Science" to Francesca Berti

Scholarships dedicated to the most outstanding female researchers in all fields of science and technology

L'Oréal Italia has announced the six winners of the XXI Italian edition of the L'Oréal-UNESCO Prize "For Women in Science".Also in this edition, six scholarships worth 20,000 euros each were awarded to as many researchers under 35, based on the excellence recognized to their projects in all fields of science and technology.

Among them, Francesca Berti, researcher at the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "G. Natta" of the Politecnico di Milano. Her project addresses the theme of "Innovative design of stents produced by additive manufacturing for congenital heart diseases".

Since 1998, L'Oréal-UNESCO's "For Women in Science" programme has been committed to enabling more women scientists to overcome barriers to career advancement and help solve the great challenges of our times, for the benefit of all. Over 25 years, the program has supported more than 4,100 female researchers from over 110 countries, rewarding scientific excellence and inspiring generations of young women to pursue their careers. Five of these women scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize.

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To learn more about Francesca Berti, you can find on Frontiere the interview we did some time ago together with her fellow researchers of the LaBS laboratory