Pakistan-born molecular biologist Asifa Akhtar has been chosen as one of the recipients of Germany's most important research award, Leibniz Prize.

Akhtar works for Germany's Max Planck Society. She was its first international female vice president for the biology and medicine section.

She will get the award in 2021.

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