At the award ceremony held in Beijing on Apr 29, Ma Yuting, a researcher at SIP-based Suzhou Institute of Systems Medicine (ISM), received the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science together with other nine female Chinese researchers for their great attainments in such fields as medicine, biology, geoscience and space science.

Ma Yuting (second from left)

The L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science, jointly initiated by French cosmetics company L'Oréal and UNESCO, aims to improve the position of women in science by recognizing outstanding women researchers with remarkable contributions to scientific progress. An award ceremony is held annually in China since 2004 to commend Chinese females aged 40 and below for their engagement in exemplary and promising research projects.

Ma, an overseas returnee who received her doctor’s degree from Paris-Sud University in France, had worked at INSERM, Gustave Roussy and Paris Descartes University as a tumor immunology researcher before she joined ISM in 2015. She is now leading a team at ISM to make study on regulatory mechanisms of cellular and psychogenic stress for tumor immunology in tumor therapies, and has published 40-plus papers in mainstream science magazines and been granted two international patents for invention. Besides, Ma is taking part in a series of national and provincial research projects.