June 29, 2018
Bulletin interne de l'Institut Pasteur
Sigolène Meilhac and Jost Enninga, winners of the 2018 Pasteur Vallery-Radot Prize
The Pasteur Vallery-Radot Prize was set up by Jacqueline Pasteur Vallery-Radot, the wife of Louis Pasteur’s grandson. Each year, the prize goes to two French Institut Pasteur scientists under the age of 50 who have carried out a major scientific project in the field of biology or physics/chemistry over the last five years.
After consultation with the Institut Pasteur, the two prizes are awarded by the National Library of France, the residuary legatee of Jacqueline Pasteur Vallery-Radot's estate.
On June 27, at a ceremony attended by Daniel Louvard, a member of the French Academy of Sciences, and Stewart Cole, President of the Institut Pasteur, these two prizes were presented to Sigolène Meilhac, head of the Heart Morphogenesis five-year group, and Jost Enninga, head of the Dynamics of Host-Pathogen Interactions Unit.