The 2015 laureates are Mrs. Agnès Rötig, a geneticist at INSERM – Institut Imagine, and Mr. Foudil Lamari from the Clinical Research Group in Neuro-metabolism at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
The award was presented to them by Mrs. Bernadette Chirac, president of the Fondation Claude Pompidou, in the presence of authorities as well as Mrs. Béatrice Rosen and Mr. Brahim Asloum, respectively godmother and godfather of the Fondation Claude Pompidou.
The Claude Pompidou Prize for Alzheimer’s disease research, valued at 100,000 euros, will allow the acquisition of highly efficient equipment such as a respirometry system for Dr. Agnès Rötig’s team and a device to measure several new potential markers for Dr. Foudil Lamari’s team.
By presenting the Prize a week before World Alzheimer’s Day (September 21st) and at the Claude Pompidou Institute, entirely dedicated to this pathology, the Fondation Claude Pompidou reaffirms its full commitment to the fight against this terrible disease.
Originally, this Prize was created in 2010, following the bequest of a generous donor from Nice to the benefit of the Foundation.
