Jayle Award, Irène Joliot-Curie Award, Sidaction Young Researcher Prize: Institut Pasteur scientists recognized

•    Camille Berthelot, winner of the Jayle Award

The Jayle Award from the French Academy of Sciences, founded in 1981, is a four-yearly biochemistry award for research on the physiology of sex hormones in fields relating to the reproduction of mammals, primates and humans.

This year's Jayle Award goes to Camille Berthelot, Head of the Comparative Functional Genomics G5, for the excellence of her research on the evolution of the uterus and menstruation in primates and her commitment to research on women's health.

 

•    Aude Bernheim, winner of the Irène Joliot-Curie Award in the "Young Female Scientist" category

The Irène Joliot-Curie Award was set up in 2001 by the French Ministry of Research to promote the role of women in research and technology in France. It shines a light on female scientists with dynamic careers driven by excellence.

The award is given by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, with the support of the French Academy of Sciences and Academy of Technologies.

This year, Aude Bernheim won the Irène Joliot-Curie Award from the Academy of Sciences in the category "Young Female Scientist" for her research on bacterial immunity, which aims to explore the vast topic of antiviral defense in bacteria and the conservation of these systems throughout the living world, especially in human immunity.
 
Over the past five years, research by Aude Bernheim and others has helped reveal the existence of hundreds of new bacterial systems and several novel mechanisms involved in this ancestral immunity, offering a fresh perspective on immunity and innovative therapeutic prospects.

 

•    Daniel Wikar: winner of the Sidaction Young Researcher Prize

At the 2024 Line Renaud-Loulou Gasté Prize on November 25, the Young Researcher Prize was presented to Daniel Wikar, a PhD student in Marc Lavigne's team, for his thesis entitled: "Regulation of guanine quadruplexes in HIV by paraspeckle proteins," funded by Sidaction.

This prize goes to an early career scientist funded by Sidaction, for the quality and relevance of their research on HIV/AIDS.