With the Académie des Sciences in 2013-2014

encOURAGinG the ScientiFic cOmmUnitY

lamonica Prize

Awarded since 2009, the two Académie des Sciences - Fondation pour la Recherche Biomédicale-PCL Lamonica Prizes in neurology

(€100,000) and cardiology (€60,000) are intended for a French or foreign scientist working in a French laboratory. Part of the funding

is to be used by the laureate, the rest of it enabling him/her to fund his/her research.

neurology Laureates

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2013: Jean-Antoine Girault, a re-

search director at INSERM, direc-

tor of the Institut du Fer à Moulin,

Paris

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2014: Christophe Mulle, a research

director at CNRS (National Center for

Scientific Research), Physiology of

Glutamatergic Synapses team lea-

der, University of Bordeaux

cardiology Laureates

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2013: Xavier Jouven, a university

professor and hospital practitioner

in cardiology (Georges Pompidou

European Hospital, Paris), and a

professor in epidemiology and

public health

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2014: Jacques Barhanin, a research

director at CNRS, director of the La-

boratory of Molecular PhysioMedi-

cine at the Faculty of Medicine, Nice

institut de France awards

In the field of science, the great annual awards of the Institut de France - del Duca, Louis D, Lefoulon-Delalande, NRJ, Allianz/Institut

de France, Victor Noury, Danièle Hermann prizes - are granted by decision or at the proposal of the Académie des Sciences.

The most important ones are the scientific eminent awards of the Louis D. Foundation (€750,000) and the Simone and Cino del

Duca Foundation (€300,000). In both cases, part of the grant is for the scientific team leader, while the other is intended to fund the

research team’s work, including the recruitment of French or foreign post-doctoral researchers.

Fondation Louis D. Laureates

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2013: Thibault Cantat, CEA

(French Alternative Energies

and Atomic Energy Commis-

sion), CNRS, for his work on

the theme of CO2 Valorization:

Chemical and Biotechnologi-

cal Approaches

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2014: François Bouchet, Astrophy-

sics Institute of Paris, for his work on

Cosmology and its Links to Physics:

Beyond the Standard Model

Scientific Awards of Simone and cino del Duca Laureates

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2013: Michel Campillo, Joseph-

Fourier University, Earth Science

Institute, Grenoble, for his work

on the theme of Chemistry and

Physics in the Earth Dynamics

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2014: Stanislav Dusko

Ehrlich and Joël Doré,

INRA (National Insti-

tute for Agricultural

Research, for their

work on the theme

of Microbiome and

Homeostasis