Île-de-France

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 […]

In addition to being a microbiology and genetics specialist, what sets Aude Bernheim apart is her strong commitment to effecting change. When she is not tracking the similarities between bacterial and human immunity, the young researcher is working to erase the differences between the treatment of men and women in science. Researcher, activist, author. At […]

Rare are the animal species that menstruate. Camille Berthelot, Inserm research associate at Institut Pasteur, is comparing the genomes of different species to identify the genes responsible for menstruation and – potentially – the factors that cause endometriosis. Menstruation is a characteristic of a few rare mammals: humans, some other primates, some bats, and one […]

Benjamin Chousterman is an anesthesiologist, lecturer and researcher. And what do these activities all have in common? The answer is sepsis – the final stage of infection that leads to failure of the vital organs. Chousterman treats patients with this severe condition and in parallel studies the immune mechanisms that cause it. A recipient of […]