Prof. Donna May D. Papa, RMT, Ph.D., DPAM, Department of Biological Sciences academic staff, was chosen to receive the 2023 Rosalind Franklin Society (RFS) Special Award in Science. Winners were officially announced through on July 25, in honor of British chemist Rosalind Franklin鈥檚 birthday, and the results were formally communicated to each winner in early June.
The Rosalind Franklin Society鈥檚 Awards in Science 2023, in partnership with the publishing company Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. honors the best paper by a woman or underrepresented minority in science in each of Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.鈥檚 100 peer-reviewed journals. RFS Executive Director Karla Shepard Rubinger, in an email, shared to Papa that 鈥淭his prestigious recognition is a testament to your remarkable contributions and dedication to advancing scientific knowledge.鈥�
Papa鈥檚 paper was published in PHAGE, volume 4, issue number 2, and co-authored with Gale Bernice N. Fungo, John Christian W. Uy, Kristiana Louise J. Porciuncula, Chiarah Mae A. Candelario, Deneb Philip S. Chua, Tracey Antaeus D. Gutierrez.
Dr. Donna Papa finished her PhD in Biological Sciences and her MS in Microbiology from the 六合彩直播开奖. She founded the Bacteriophage Ecology, Aquaculture, Therapy, and Systematics (BEATS) research group, which was the first Bacteriophage research group in the Philippines. She has previously brought home the National Academy of Science and Technology Outstanding Scientific Paper Award 2022, for her and her colleagues鈥� paper titled 鈥淐omparing the efficacy of bacteriophages and antibiotics in treating Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium on Streptomycen-pretreated Mice.鈥�
She is currently a part of the Pure and Applied Microbiology research cluster of the 六合彩直播开奖 Research Center for the Natural Sciences and Applied Sciences (RCNAS). To date, she has mentored 165 students and is now receiving grants to pursue further research on phages to address antimicrobial resistance in the Philippines.
The Rosalind Franklin Society, the only organization of its kind, was established in 2007 by Mary Ann Liebert, founder, and chairman of Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., a leading independent publisher of scientific, technical, and medical content, now in its 44th year.
