{"id":6736,"date":"2023-12-05T13:27:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T13:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=6736"},"modified":"2023-12-05T13:27:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T13:27:17","slug":"two-cameroonians-women-win-a-prestigious-science-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/05\/two-cameroonians-women-win-a-prestigious-science-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Cameroonians Women Win A Prestigious Science Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Cameroon&#8217;s rural north, a career in science is a rarity for most women. Two young women have bucked the trend, winning a prestigious science award on November 8.<br \/>\nSabine Adeline Fanta Yadang, 32, a doctor of neuroscience, and Hadidjatou Da\u00efrou, 33, a doctor of cellular physiology, have overcome societal prejudice to win the L&#8217;Or\u00e9al-Unesco Young Talent Award for Women in Science for their work on the power of medicinal plants.<br \/>\nThe two young scientists were chosen from among 30 scientists in sub-Saharan Africa to win the award on November 8 at a ceremony held in Botswana.<br \/>\nFanta and Hadidjatou were praised for their work on the potential of traditional medicinal plants in Cameroon for treating cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer&#8217;s.<br \/>\nIn the face of expensive conventional treatments to slow Alzheimer&#8217;s, the researcher hopes to prove that this plant will make it possible &#8220;to combat the degeneration of neurons and reduce stress in the affected brain&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events In Cameroon&#8217;s rural north, a career in science is a rarity for most women. Two young women have bucked the trend, winning a prestigious science award on November 8. Sabine Adeline Fanta Yadang, 32, a doctor of neuroscience, and Hadidjatou Da\u00efrou, 33, a doctor of cellular physiology, have overcome societal prejudice &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6743,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions\/6743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}