researcher Maria Mota, who received the 2013 Individual Award on Monday in Lisbon, argued that “nothing can be done without money,” how good they are the ideas, stressing that “science is all, for all.”
The scientist, who has featured in the study of malaria, thanked the conditions that had to “try, make mistakes and correct “and” enormous privilege to be able to spend their days trying to meet the most basic human needs:. curiosity “
At the ceremony, which received the award from the President of the Republic, Aníbal Cavaco Silva , and president of Impresa group, Francisco Balsemão, teacher also highlighted the lack, in Portugal, of women “as leaders of creative teams, to direct research institutes.”
Moments before, Maria Mota considered, in a short statement to Lusa, which demonstrates that the premium was “a good bet” the trust “in a generation that was formed at the highest laboratories in the world.”
The Individual Award, sponsored by Impresa Group, owner of the weekly newspaper Expresso , and the CGD, is awarded annually to the person of Portuguese nationality that has distinguished itself in artistic, literary or scientific country.
The winner of this 27. edition of Pessoa Prize, worth 60,000 euros, was announced in December 2013, in the Palace of Seteais in Sintra. At the time, the jury highlighted on the researcher of the Institute of Molecular Medicine, Lisbon, “enthusiastic commitment to what can be called the science of citizenship” as it is also founder and president of Associação Viver a Ciência, which “has designed to encourage philanthropy in Portugal. “
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