Marking International Women’s Day: Spotlight on a Former Grantee from Vietnam

This month’s post celebrates women scientists – and International Women’s Day – by focusing on two-time IFS grantee (2006 and 2011) Dr Phuong Thi Mai Nguyen of Vietnam’s Institute of Biotechnology.She was a participant at a recent workshop co-organized by IFS in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where IFS Director, Nighisty Ghezae, gave an opening address. Nighisty took the opportunity to ask Dr Phuong to consider the questions IFS is sending to former and present grantees in selected countries, as an element of this year’s strategy development. Dr Phuong noted that, “…a continuing challenge for early-career scientists is getting research funding”.