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2026 Collen-Jeantet Prize, Top GUT Paper 2025: scientists recognized
Yasmine Belkaid, winner of the 2026 Collen-Jeantet Prize for Translational Medicine
On January 15, the Louis-Jeantet Foundation awarded the 2026 Collen-Jeantet Prize for Translational Medicine to Yasmine Belkaid for revealing the complex interactions between the microbiota, nutrition, infections and the immune system and transforming our understanding of host defenses and tissue homeostasis.
The award ceremony will take place on Wednesday April 22, 2026 in Geneva.
Read the press release from the Louis-Jeantet Foundation
The article In vitro microbiota model recapitulates and predicts individualised sensitivity to dietary emulsifier selected as Top GUT Paper 2025
On December 25, Professor Emad El-Omar, editor-in-chief of the journal Gut, alongside the editorial committee, selected the articleIn vitro microbiota model recapitulates and predicts individualised sensitivity to dietary emulsifieras Top GUT Paper 2025.
This choice by the editorial team of the prestigious journal is a sign of recognition for the significant research carried out by Benoit Chassaing, the members of his team in the Microbiome-Host Interactions Unit and associated colleagues in improving our understanding of the microbiome and food addiction. The award was announced on the social media pages of the journal Gut.
This research led to apodcast that you can listen by clicking on the link.