While on maternity leave, Maria Liaskos won several prestigious grants, including a veski Inspiring Women grant. She tells Gerd Winter how she overcame the challenges she faced as a female scientist, and how the veski grant is making a real difference.
A microbiologist at La Trobe University, Maria Liaskos secured her medical research career by winning a National Health and Medical Research Council Project grant and one of four inaugural Inspiring Women grants from the Victorian veski foundation.
The veski Inspiring Women initiative was established in 2015 to help women maintain a career in science. The award is worth $150,000 over three years.
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