Hana Vaisocherová, Ph.D. received the prestigious L’Oréal scholarship

Hana Vaisocherová Ph.D. from the Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the CAS, v. v. i. as the third of the awarded scientists received a scholarship for the project, which aims to develop an optical sensor based on plasma resonance enabling early and rapid detection of hazardous substances in food. She says of the scientific work, “A key point of this competition project is to develop a method of anchoring receptors to the surface of biochips that would significantly increase the sensitivity and accuracy of detecting harmful substances.”

The awards were presented to the winners at a gala evening at Strahov Monastery on 19 May 2011.

For more information, please visit the L’Oréal For Women in Science website.