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Neurodegenerative Diseases: Tracking Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s in the Gut
It is just a courtyard that separates Nantes University Hospital from the TENS lab. A courtyard that the teams of Pascal Derkinderen and Moustapha Cissé cross when their colleagues perform a colon biopsy, or to go meet with patients. Because the research conducted by the lab has a clinical purpose: to track the links between […]
Maria-Christina Zennaro: The Challenge of Better Diagnosing Hypertension
For over 30 years, endocrinologist Maria-Christina Zennaro, Inserm research director at the Paris Cardiovascular Research Center, has endeavored to better understand the causes of high blood pressure. Her latest project, ENSAT-HT, which federates European research forces, has received an Étoiles de l’Europe award. Hypertension, which kills 11 million people each year worldwide, exists in more than one […]
Charlotte Proudhon: Bringing Epigenetics and Cancer Screening Together
Charlotte Proudhon is a pure geneticist. For over fifteen years, she worked in laboratories specializing in the study of DNA until 2022 when she obtained funding from the European Research Council to set up her own Inserm team. Her objective? Use her knowledge to develop a universal cancer screening test requiring just a blood sample. […]
Rémy Nicolle: Understanding the Architecture of Pancreatic Cancers Will Aid Therapeutic Innovation
By exploring the diversity of the structure and composition of pancreatic cancers, Rémy Nicolle wants to identify avenues that will rapidly bring new treatments to patients. This translational research, which combines genomics, transcriptomics and artificial intelligence, was selected as part of the Atip-Avenir program in 2022. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma accounts for 85% of all pancreatic cancers. It is […]
HIV: A Game of Immune Hide-and-Seek
While AIDS is no longer necessarily a life-threatening disease, a major obstacle to its recovery persists: the ability of HIV to conceal itself within the body, away from antiretroviral treatments. At Institut Cochin in Paris, Morgane Bomsel and her team are working to discover and describe these « hiding places » to enable the development of novel […]
Nicolas L’Heureux: Artificial Blood Vessels That Are 100% Biological
Recipient of a European Research Council grant in 2022 for his project to develop artificial tissues in the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse, Nicolas L’Heureux, director of the Tissue Bioengineering Laboratory in Bordeaux, has worked for twenty years to design artificial vessels that are impermeable, resistant, and contain no synthetic products. What research can be […]
Olivier Delattre, 2022 Grand Prize
Better diagnosis, innovative treatments, the research into childhood cancers by Olivier Delattre – a full-time researcher but a pediatrician at heart – has paid off. His insatiable curiosity and tenacity in unraveling the mysteries of these diseases have earned him the Grand Prize. Once a pediatrician, always a pediatrician « Back when I was choosing what to […]
Valérie Gabelica, 2022 Research Prize
Mass spectrometry is used to study the conformation of molecules and their interactions. From this analytical chemistry tool, which is over 100 years old, chemist Valérie Gabelica is making an innovative device for plunging into the heart of DNA and RNA. Work that has earned her the Research Prize. A new lease of life for mass […]
Valérie Crépel, 2022 Innovation Prize
In less than a decade, neurobiologists Valérie Crépel from Inserm and Christophe Mulle from CNRS have brought a gene therapy for temporal lobe epilepsy to the stage at which it can soon be tested in patients. This success in creating industrial value has earned Valérie Crépel the Innovation Prize. Frontal lobe epilepsy: gene therapy in […]
Justine Bertrand-Michel, 2022 Research Support Prize
For Justine Bertrand-Michel, who directs the MetaToul platform for metabolites analysis, helping researchers is a noble activity. A conviction she has put into practice for over twenty years and for which she has been awarded the Research Support Prize. Supporting research whatever the cost « I had always wanted to work in health biology, explains Justine Bertrand-Michel […]
