The 17-member staff of the Experimental Biology Centre under theTechnological Application Institute of the Ministry of Science andTechnology received the award for numerous projects researching theproduction of nutritious supplement products from sea weeds andbiological waste treatment solutions.
The centre was also successful in multiplying a number of valuable local medicinal plants.
The individual prize went to Associate Professor, Dr Bach Khanh Hoa,former director of the National Institute of Haematology and BloodTransfusion.
Speaking at the ceremony, Deputy PrimeMinister Nguyen Xuan Phuc praised the prize winners’ efforts to overcomeall difficulties to pursue their scientific research, contributing tonational construction and development through their initiatives andinventions.
He called on the whole society to create conditions for women to devote more to the country.
The Vietnam Kovalevskaya Award Committee was established in 1985. Theaward was named after the great Russian female mathematician SofiaKovalevskaya.
On this occasion, prizes were alsopresented to winners of a writing contest on bright examples ofVietnamese women, which attracted nearly 30,000 entries nationwidebetween June-October 2012.-VNA