Lithuanian has been nominated for Women Innovators 2018 award

We are extremely proud of Rima Balanaskiene, the founder and CEO of Aconitum, to be nominated for Women Innovators 2018 award by the European Commission. ‘This nomination and possible victory, which we all are looking for, could serve as a push for women to stop looking for excuses and take leadership to innovate, compete and achieve success, and we are here to facilitate this process in any way we can’, says Mantas Vilys, the CEO of Lithuanian Innovation Centre. In 2011 Aconitum, a company that develops and manufactures innovative herbal medicines and food supplement, won the Innovation Prize for innovative product awarded by the Lithuanian Innovation Centre. For more information about Women Innovators 2018 award go [here](https://ec.europa.eu/research/prizes/women-innovators/index.cfm?pg=finalists).