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The Vietnam Women’s Union organized a ceremony to give the Kovalevskaia award 2020 with the participation of Associate professor Nguyen Thi Doan, former Vice President, chairwoman of the Kovalevskaia Award Committee. For individual category, Associate Professor Truong Thanh Huong, lecturer of Cardiovascular Faculty of the Hanoi-based Medical University won the award. Lecturer, associate professor Truong Thanh Huong has made great achievement in researches with the outstanding one being her research “Building an inherited gene mutation causing high levels of blood cholesterol”. Moreover, she has proposed management models of illness in Vietnam. Her research of an inherited gene mutation causing high levels of blood cholesterol was certified by the Ministry of Science and Technology and transferred to medical facilities for application in taking care of nearly 500,000 Vietnamese people suffering hereditary blood cholesterol. For team category, female scientists of the Institute of Natural Product Chemistry under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology won the award. They have made research on biologically-active compounds with natural origins for application into real life to better human health. A group of researchers led by associate professors Ngo Kim Chi and Le Thi Phuong Quynh have made the project “Level and measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions in production of coffee in the Central Highlands Province of Dak Lak", which also won the award. The Kovalevskaya Award was named after the Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya. The award, the first national award for female scientists, started to be presented in Vietnam in 1986. The prestigious annual award is given to organizations and individuals who are female scientists and have excellent achievements in research and applying science into life, bringing benefits in different fields including economy, society and culture. Since 1986, the award has been presented to 19 organizations and …

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Upon addressing the ceremony, Ha Thi Nga, president of the Vietnam Women's Union, emphasised that this year's award ceremony was held with the aim of celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Kovalevskaya Award. In addition, the occasion serves to affirm the importance of female scientists in conducting research activities to make great contributions to the country. Nga went on to stress that the Vietnam Women's Union has been fully aware of its role and responsibility in research activities that aim to improve the overall quality of the female workforce, especially in terms of high-quality female human resources. Moving forward, the association plans to devise guidelines and policies which are both appropriate and effective in order to improve the overall quantity and quality of female intellectuals. At the award ceremony,  former Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan expressed her hope that female scientists will seize upon opportunities to climb the social ladder through their research activities whilst greatly contributing to the country through participating in scientific research products. This year’s award has been presented to a group of scientists from the VAST, along with those from Hanoi Medical University, for their outstanding achievements in the field of scientific research, with their work in natural science research particularly notable. The Kovalevskaia Award was named after the Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaia and was first presented in the nation in 1986, becoming the first national award for female scientists in the process. Over the past 35 years, the award has been presented to 20 different organisations and 49 individuals across various fields, such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, agriculture, medicine, and information technology. …

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The pair were presented with the Shining Star Achievement in the Research category during an online awards ceremony held at 7 a.m. on December 9. The Shining Star Achievement in Research award is given in recognition of influential scholarly contributions in any discipline, typically in the form of scholarly journal articles that are published, or alternatively books, book chapters, or other expressions of scholarly collaboration. Prof. Tran Xuan Bach was born in 1984 and is currently vice head of the Health Economics Department at Hanoi Medical University. He possesses extensive experience in relation to research, surveillance, and evaluation of global health threats in the Asia-Pacific region. His work has won him numerous international and domestic awards in the past, including the Hopkins Center for AIDS Research's International Research Award. He has also published over 300 papers in a number of highly regarded international journals, including The Lancet, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, and AIDS and Behavior. Most notably, Prof. Bach is the youngest professor in recent decades to work at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, the world leader in terms of public health. According to details released by the university, he has extensive experience in advising various U.N. agencies, international organisations, and governments on issues such as global health and development in Southeast Asia. Meanwhile, born in 1975 Prof. Tran Thi Ly was previously employed as a lecturer at Hue University, although she is currently working at the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University in Australia. First arriving in Australia in 2001, Prof. Ly has gone on to produce extensive research on the international education sector, including writing the first English-language book on Vietnamese higher education. She has won more than 30 awards, prizes, scholarships, and grants for research, including the prestigious Australian Research Council …

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