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L’Oréal UNESCO award
Asrar Damdam selected as L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Award winner
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Sun, Jan 31 2021
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L’Oréal UNESCO award
KAUST Ph.D. student Asrar Damdam has been selected as one of the six winners of the 7th L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Middle East Regional Young Talents Program. Damdam received the prestigious award for her design and fabrication of a reconfigurable silicon-based electronic platform specifically designed for a heart-assistive device. The platform was designed to comply with the heart’s shape and its rhythmic expansions and contractions during the cardiac cycle.