EU Women Innovators Prize awarded to Ilaria Rosso for an innovative hydrogen fuel cell back up system

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 December 2011- Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn and Commission President, José Manuel Barroso, along with Vice President Antonio Tajani, presented the first EU Women Innovators Prize in Brussels.

The EU Women Innovators Prize celebrates women innovators who have achieved outstanding innovations and brought them to market. The prize aims to inspire and raise awareness of the need for more women innovators and entrepreneurs. The contest was open to all women who have at some stage participated in the EU Framework Programmes.

During the Innovation Convention organised by the European Commission on 5 december 2011 in Brussels, the winners of the EU Prize for Women Innovators, Gitte Neubauer, Fabienne Hermitte and Ilaria Rosso, were awarded - see the winners's related videos.

The awards went to three innovative women scientists:

First prize (EUR 100 000): Dr. Gitte Neubauer (Germany), Co-founder CELLZOME, Vice-President for Research Operations. Her groundbreaking research into chemo-proteomics is driving her company’s work on new and better targeted drugs against inflammatory diseases and cancer.

Second prize (EUR 50 000): Fabienne Hermitte (France), Co-founder IPSOGEN, Senior director, Research and Development - Regulatory Affairs. Her work made her company a pioneer in personalised healthcare diagnostics, which allow more individualised treatments for cancer patients

Third prize (EUR 25 000): Ilaria Rosso (Italy), Co-founder ELECTRO POWER SYSTEMS, Vice-President of IP Policy and Public Funding Programs. Her company developed the first self-recharging hydrogen fuel cell system for backup power - a clean, renewable alternative to lead-acid batteries and diesel generators. Ilaria Rosso is also actively participating in Fuel cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking' supported projects.

 

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