This year's L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science have gone to five candidates. Two won for their work on toxins: microbiologist Alejandra Bravo of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City and biochemist Lourdes Cruz of the University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City. Two awards were given for work on diseases: to zoologist Rashika El Ridi of Cairo University and cell biologist Elaine Fuchs of the Rockefeller University in New York. The fifth award went to Anne Dejean-Assémat, a molecular biologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, for her work on leukaemia and liver cancers. Each laureate will receive US$100,000.