Who is the female professor elected to the World Academy of Sciences?

Chân Phúc |

HCMC - Professor Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai is one of two Vietnamese professors elected as academicians of the World Academy of Sciences this time.

The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) has just elected 74 new academicians. This is the largest number of elected academicians in history, bringing the total number of members of the academy to 1,444.

Two Vietnamese scientists elected as academicians of the World Academy of Sciences this time are Prof. Dr. Nguyen The Hoang - Deputy Director of 108 Military Central Hospital and Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai - Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City National University.

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai, born in 1974 in Mo Duc district, Quang Ngai province. She graduated from the Chemistry department of Ho Chi Minh City University of Science (now the University of Natural Sciences, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City).

From 1998 to 2002, Ms. Mai worked as a teaching assistant at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City).

From 2002 to 2013, she was a lecturer at the Department of Chemistry, University of Science, and from May 2002 to September 2005, she was a graduate student at Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan.

From 2007 to 2012, Dr. Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai was Deputy Head of the Department of Chemistry; from 2009 to 2013, she was Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City).

In January 2022, while serving as Vice Principal of the University of Natural Sciences, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai was appointed to concurrently hold the position of Principal of the Gifted High School.

Ms. Mai was recognized as an associate professor in 2014 and recognized as a professor in 2020.

During her scientific research career, Professor Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai has focused on the field of drug discovery from Vietnamese medicinal herbs, contributing greatly to the development of the country's medical and pharmaceutical industry.

In particular, she has researched and applied, completed two products to support the treatment of gastrointestinal cancer and arthritis from domestic medicinal herbs, and has more than 80 articles published in prestigious international scientific journals.

Her research team also received the 2019 Ho Chi Minh City Innovation Award for their research on products from bees raised in Vietnam.

In 2021, she was honored to receive the Kovalevskaia Prize - a prestigious award named after the outstanding 19th-century Russian female mathematician, Sophia Kovalevskaia, to honor female scientists in the field of natural sciences.

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