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L’Oreal-UNESCO International Fellowship

Dr Lydia Lynch has been awarded an L’Oreal-UNESCO International Fellowship that will support a research internship in Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Centre, Boston, USA.

Intended to support young female researchers at doctoral or postdoctoral level at a critical point in their career, the L’Oreal-UNESCO International Fellowships nurture the scientific talent of the future. Dr Lynch will receive $40,000 over 2 years to support her obesity research.

The fifteen international recipients from each of the five continents were selected by a jury of scientific experts chaired by Professor Ahmed H. Zewail, 1999 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. With over 750 researchers participating from 191 countries, the L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science awards motivate, inspire and support this global community as they advance scientific knowledge.

Dr Lydia Lynch (pictured in the back row with fellow award recipients at the ceremony in Paris) is currently working with Conway Fellow, Professor Donal O’Shea in the obesity research group in the Education & Research Centre, St Vincent's University Hospital. She is looking at the human omentum as an immunological tool. Lydia won the 2008 UCD Conway research medal, sponsored by Roche for her abstract, The policeman of the abdomen no longer undercover: the humun omentum reveals itself as a unique immune organ, which is compromised in obesity.

Media link: The Irish Times