Iranian female professor awarded UNESCO Medal in Nanoscience

This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at http://ift.tt/jcXqJW.

Tuesday 21 Apr 2015 - 12:38 Makkah mean time-2-7-1436 Prof. Soudabeh Davaran (Nanotechnology Now/image) Paris (IINA) – Iranian Female Professor Soudabeh Davaran was one of the laureates who received the UNESCO Medal for the “Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies”, Nanotechnology Now website reported Monday. The medal, which is awarded to the researchers who have significantly helped the development of nanotechnology and nanoscience, was presented by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova to eight laureates during a ceremony organized at UNESCO headquarters on April 10. Dr. Davaran is the head of Medicinal Nanotechnology Department of Pharmaceutics College of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and the professor of medicinal biomaterials and medicinal nanotechnology of the university. The UNESCO Medal “for contribution to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies” was established in 2010 at the initiative of the thematic group on “Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies” of the International Commission on the Development of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). AB/IINA