Bangladeshi vaccine scientist wins Asia's 'Nobel Prize'
After being the first woman to be awarded the "Christophe Merieux Prize" in 2012, Firdausi Qadri won the “Ramon Magsaysay Award”, Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize!
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Firdausi Qadri, at 70 won the “Ramon Magsaysay Award”, Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize, for her “life-long devotion to the scientific profession” and “untiring contributions to vaccine development”.
The first ever woman to be awarded the “Christophe Merieux Prize” in 2012 for her research on infectious enteric diseases (killing between 500,000 and 800,000 children each year), used the 500,000 euros prize to create the Institute for Developing Science and Health Initiatives (ideSHI) in 2014.
Laureate of the 2020 L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award for “leading pioneering work to understand the microbiological and immunological basis of bacterial diseases and treat infectious enteric and diarrheagenic diseases affecting children (…), optimizing vaccines for young children suffering from malnutrition.
She led her team together with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the largest feasibility stydy on a newer, more affordable oral cholera vaccine, “Shanchol”.
Since then, more than 60 million doses have been shipped worldwide, helping prevent outbreaks before they happen, and saving considerable lives.
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https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Heroes-in-the-Field-Dr-Firdausi-Qadri