Menna Farouk

According to Isabella Rodrigues, bioresorbable artificial grafts, based on the main proteins of blood vessels and produced using scalable and inexpensive tissue engineering techniques, mitigate problems of long-term applications.

Institutional Discrimination in Science Falling Walls Circle Tables are lending the spotlight to world-leading scientists, science strategists and policy-makers from academia, business and politics discuss how we can apply science, research and innovation to get the world moving again. The killing of George Floyd has triggered global protests challenging institutional…

Nominated by: Fridtjof Detzner, Planet A Presented by: Marek Chęciński

How Humanitarian Action Urges World Leaders to Prepare for the Next Epidemic At the end of 2013, two-year old toddler Emile was the first patient to die from a mysterious disease in a small village in south-eastern Guinea. A few months later, hospital workers reported similar cases to Guinea’s Ministry…

Thousands of students across Canada developed STEM projects this year, but most regional science fairs in March/April and the 2020 Canada-Wide Science Fair in May were cancelled. On May 4, YSC launched an online fair to encourage grade 7-12 students to share their projects and fuel their journey of discovery…

James Collins is the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering & Science and Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT, as well as a Member of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology Faculty. He is also a Core Founding Faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University,…

My project would like to realize evidence-based education to meet demands for improved education standards. My project collects so called ‘educational big data’ from LMS and digital textbooks. The collected data is immediately analyzed and used for effective feedback to both learners and teachers. The main concept is real-time education…

Following over 20 years of intensive, collaborative development work, European companies and research institutes have created a revolutionary new manufacturing technology for mass-producing powerful micro-chips: EUV lithography. Because EUV light is absorbed even by air, ZEISS SMT created an optical system for the EUV lithography machine that consists of the…

Professor John A. Rogers obtained undergraduate degrees in chemistry and in physics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989. From MIT, he received SM degrees in physics and in chemistry in 1992 and the PhD degree in physical chemistry in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, Rogers was a Junior…

The nominating institute Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries on the breakthrough: The importance of freshwater biodiversity contrasts with its low profile in policy and society. Jähnig studies freshwater megafauna, as these large, charismatic animals can function as umbrella species in nature conservation, and act as flagship species…