Nina Fenouille, Alexandre Puissant, and Issam Ben Sahra received this prestigious prize from Lilian Bettencourt. The three young doctors come from the Mediterranean Center for Molecular Medicine, C3M, and are doing their postdoctoral research in prestigious institutes in Boston. What a great example to follow!
This result is quite remarkable, considering that only 14 prizes have been awarded in France and that 3 were thus awarded to former doctoral students of the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. It is a strong signal of the quality of the research carried out within the Faculty of Medicine, its Doctoral School, and INSERM.
The Bettencourt Schueller Foundation presented the 2011 Young Researchers Prize to 14 young doctors in science.
Every year since 1990, this prize has rewarded researchers in science, allowing them to complete their postdoctoral internships abroad.
Welcomed in foreign laboratories among the best in their fields, they can thus continue their research in excellent conditions.
Recognized as a public utility in 1987, the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation was created by Liliane Bettencourt, in memory of her father Eugรจne Schueller, himself a researcher and chemist.
Thus, its mission is to: push the boundaries of knowledge in life sciences to improve health; reveal talents and transmit skills in the field of artistic creation; alleviate suffering, combat exclusion, and respond to emergencies in social action.
