During a friendly ceremony held in the conference room of the Foundation’s Nice headquarters, Professor Alain Pompidou—representing President Mrs. Bernadette Chirac—and Professor Bruno Dubois, president of the jury, presented the Claude Pompidou Prize for Alzheimer’s research.
This Prize was established in 2010 and is being awarded to a female laureate for the third time.
By awarding its Prize a few days before September 21, World Alzheimer’s Day, and at the very heart of the Claude Pompidou Institute, entirely dedicated to this pathology, the Claude Pompidou Foundation reaffirms its full commitment in the fight against this terrible disease.
The Prize, amounting to 100,000 euros, was awarded to Professor Guylène Page, director of an associated research team (EA 3808) NEUVACOD Neurovascular Unit and Cognitive Disorders at the University of Poitiers.
Thanks to the Prize, Professor Page’s laboratory will be equipped with several high-tech materials that will enhance their work on the chemo-therapeutic environment of peripheral blood cells in Alzheimer’s disease (camera, cell counter, epifluorescence microscope, tissue homogenizer…).
Present were Alain Bernard (Olympic swimming champion and Foundation ambassador), Brahim Asloum (Olympic boxing champion and Foundation sponsor), Emmanuelle Boidron (actress and Foundation ambassador), and Mrs. Olivier Dassault (antique dealer and Foundation ambassador).
