With the Académie des Sciences in 2015

ENCOURAGING THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY

Prize Ampère de l’Électricité de France

This prize (€50,000 €), created in 1975 by Électricité de France to celebrate the 200

anniversary of André-Marie Ampère’s birth,

rewards basic or applied research work conducted in a French laboratory in the field of mathematics or physics.

2015 Laureate:

• Michel Fliess, CNRS emeritus research director at the Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’École polytechnique

(Laboratory of Informatics of the École polytechnique, LIX), Palaiseau.

The Fondation Ramsay Générale de Santé Prize for Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine

The Fondation Ramsay Générale de Santé and the Académie des Sciences have been awarding a prize since 2012 to reward

scientific excellence in the field of tissue regeneration. Amounting to a sum of €100,000 (one part for the laureates, the rest for the

work of their teams), the prize rewards basic research, aiming to foster the expansion of scientific knowledge, as well as translational

and clinical research, in order to encourage the fast transfer of knowledge into applications for diagnosis and therapy.

2015 Laureates

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Bas

ic Research: Pierre Savatier,

research director at Inserm, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute (SBRI), Bron;

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Clinical and Translational Research

: José Cohen,

director of the Mondor Biomedical Research Institute (Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, IMRB), Créteil.

Institut de France Awards

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

de France, Victor Noury, Danièle Hermann prizes – are granted by decision of or on a proposal from the Académie des Sciences.

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

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

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

2015 Laureates

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Fondation Louis D

: Chris Bowler, CNRS research director at IBENS

(Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure), and Didier

Raoult, director of the Méditerranée Infection institute, Marseille.

©Didier Plowy

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Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca

: Guy Perrin,

astronomer at the Paris Observatory LESIA, and

Patrice Hello, in charge of the VIRGO team at the

Linear Accelerator Laboratory, Orsay.