This award, named after TWAS President Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim, is designed to honour women scientists in Least Developed African countries for their achievements in Biological Sciences. It carries a cash award of USD5,000 generously provided by Professor Abdool Karim.
TWAS is inviting nominations for the 2024 Award from all its members as well as science academies, national research councils, universities and scientific institutions in developing and developed countries.
Application Process
- While filling in the form, pay attention to the requirements for each field (e.g. maximum number of characters, file type, date format, etc.)
- Run a check using the button of the form menu to verify that mandatory fields have been filled in and the data you entered are accepted. This also saves your form every time you run a check, you are taken to the last section of the form named "Submit". Use the form menu to navigate to the previous sections.
- After you run a check, fields with NOT ACCEPTED OR MISSING DATA will be highlighted in RED.
Please note that once you have duly modified the content of one or more fields, the red highlight will not disappear until you run again a check.