February 17, 2017
Bulletin interne de l'Institut Pasteur
Prize-giving ceremony for the 2016 Fondation de France medical awards : five Institut Pasteur scientists rewarded
On February 2, the Fondation de France gave out 18 awards of more than €400,000 to medical research teams for their innovative work over the past year. Every year, the Fondation de France and several other foundations under its aegis award medical prizes in recognition of the work achieved by research teams and as a means of encouraging promising young researchers.
The 2016 winners included five Institut Pasteur scientists:
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Laurence Mulard, Head of the Chemistry of Biomolecules Unit, and Béatrice Regnault, Head of the Eukaryote Genotyping Platform, shared the Thérèse Lebrasseur Prize, awarded for research by an Institut Pasteur scientist that did not involve vivisection.
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Philippe Bousso, Head of the Dynamics of Immune Responses Unit, won the Jean Valade Prize, which is awarded for medical research by one or more French-speaking scientists with an immediate diagnostic, pathophysiological or therapeutic application.
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Arnaud Echard, Head of the Membrane Traffic and Cell Division Unit, was awarded the Georges Zermati Prize, which rewards the work of an Institut Pasteur scientist in any discipline.
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Fadel Sayes from the Integrated Mycobacterial Pathogenomics Unit was given the Jacques Monod Prize, which goes to a scientist who has carried out research in a French laboratory on the molecular aspects of cell regulation.