The René & Andrée Duquesne Award reflects Andrée Duquesne's commitment to and support for scientific research. In her will, Mrs. Duquesne named the Institut Pasteur and the Ligue Contre le Cancer Paris Committee as joint residuary legatees of her estate.

This year, the winners of the Duquesne Award are Carmen Buchrieser, Distinguished Professor at the Institut Pasteur and Head of the Biology of Intracellular Bacteria Unit, and Sebastian Amigorena, Distinguished Director of Research at the CNRS, Director of the Cancer Immunotherapy Center and leader of the Immune Responses to Cancer team at the Institut Curie.

LThe Duquesne Award was presented on Monday September 22 at the Institut Pasteur, at a ceremony attended by Pascale Cossart, Emeritus Professor at the Institut Pasteur, Jean-René Brunetière, Chairman of the Ligue Contre le Cancer – Paris Committee, and Jessica Zucman-Rossi, Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Ligue Contre le Cancer – Paris Committee.

Carmen Buchrieser received the award for her research on infectious diseases, especially Legionnaires' disease, a severe form of pneumonia contracted by breathing in droplets of contaminated water. With her original research, Carmen Buchrieser has fundamentally redefined our understanding of how virulence develops in environmental bacteria, while also establishing links between ecology, cell biology and human health.

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