Fatema Al Maqbali

Nominated by: Thane Campbell, Deep Science Ventures Presented by: Samuel Cryer

The Neuro-G Project engages in neuroscience education and advocacy in Nigeria, addressing challenges like dropout rates, science enrollment decline, lack of neuroscience background in secondary schools, gender disparity, misconceptions about neurological diseases, and scarcity of neuroscience professionals. Targets include secondary school students in remote or disadvantaged areas, victimized students, and…

Evidence gathered by lay people through forms of citizen science are becoming more and more accurate, reliable and credible as the ‘civic sentinels’ performing environmental monitoring follow scientific protocols, seek advice from experts and confront their results with official measurements. This is a truly constructive form of ordinary people’s engagement…

Our products are Artificial limbs. Now we have a design of knee and we started to build it. We are aiming to design more and build it too. Tags: Diversity, Engineering, prosthetic limbs.

Embelin, a paraffin gauze infused with a herbal extract from Embelia ribes and is known in folk medicine to assist in wound healing, can help treat chronic wounds.

Nominated by: Matías Peire, GRIDX Presented by: Leandro Ciappina

I tell the story of the NASA Space Pen in 60 seconds. It starts out by saying “What you’ve been told about the NASA Space Pen is a lie”

The science communication center creates customized content considering different audiences, through the lines: “learn” dedicated to general public, “update” oriented to professionals or specialized public of related areas, and “Apply” for decision makers. The interaction with the audience through social media, experiments, collaborations with national and international institutions guides them…

Demis Hassabis is the Founder and CEO of DeepMind, the world’s leading AI research company, and now a part of Alphabet. DeepMind has produced landmark research breakthroughs such as AlphaGo, the first program to beat the world champion at the game of Go, and AlphaFold, which was heralded as a…

To develop synthesis of new skeletally diverse compounds based on 1,4-benzothiazine, synthesize libraries of new compounds and screen for anti-TB activity to identify new classes of anti-TB compounds. Tags: Covid-19, Med-Tech, New materials.