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The Passerelle programme for exiled students at Université Paris-Saclay gets ready for its second academic year

… second consecutive year, Université Paris-Saclay will welcome approximately twenty exiled students as part of its … Université Paris-Saclay will welcome twenty-two students from Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iran, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Syria … by a dedicated educational and administrative team from the university who offer them regular, one-to-one …

Published on: Fri 22/09/2023 - 10:30

Developing new antibiotics using gut microbiota

… to antibiotics, also known as antibiotic resistance, has become a major public health issue as it is responsible for … multiplication of these bacteria. When resistance arises from chromosomal mutations in the bacteria’s DNA, the … material by ‘conjugation’, i.e. the exchange of plasmids from a donor bacterium to a recipient bacterium. The genetic …

Published on: Tue 13/07/2021 - 13:31

Fabrice André: Personalised cancer treatment

… using bioinformatics, and to then match them with the right combination therapy. The ultimate goal is to create a … treatment. Every year, 16 million people suffer from cancer in the world, and 9 million of them die. “Even … challenge Fabrice André was a young professional skier from Villard-de-Lans, when he decided to start studying …

Published on: Tue 09/06/2020 - 15:00

Joël Doré: the microbiota adventurer

… , in Jouy-en-Josas, France. Joël Doré was deputy director from 2010 to 2014. Good microbes "Microbiota itself is not … plays in treating pathologies. He worked with the medical community and began by studying inflammatory bowel diseases, … complex system. Out with Petri dishes and tubes! With help from his biocomputing colleagues, he reconstructed genes and …

Published on: Mon 05/10/2020 - 13:58

Guy David: Solving the soap bubble equation

… represent the way we model nature,” Guy David says. “It is common practice, for example, to describe the weather with … should be able to tell the pressures for all other times.” From there, mathematicians ask themselves three questions: … check the properties I demonstrate, I wouldn't be far from judging that they are just wrong or more seriously that …

Published on: Thu 11/02/2021 - 16:05

Delphine Joseph: The alchemy of teamwork

… institutional investment, we have an image of a researcher committed to serving the community.   Passionate about science from an early age, Delphine Joseph embarked on a course of … thanks to everyone's expertise. Using natural substances from a blind screening and a series of molecules with proven …

Published on: Thu 08/07/2021 - 10:40

The emergence of gravity and black holes

… source of defeat for physicists. Since 2016, Monica Guică, from the Institute of Theoretical Physics (IPhT – Université … been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. Her theories bring the community closer to a more detailed description of the … physicist Stephen Hawking, alongside the Australian Brandon Carter and the American James M. Bardeen, later refined the …

Published on: Wed 08/12/2021 - 16:26

The placement year: an opportunity to shape your future

… in  L'Edition No.18 )   Who hasn’t dreamt of taking a break from their university studies to travel, learn a new … resume your studies available on your return. After having completed the first year of his Master’s degree in Nuclear … last year, I was offered the chance to receive support from a team at Ifremer and given a twelve-month fixed-term …

Published on: Wed 11/05/2022 - 15:06

Vincent Tatischeff: unlocking the secrets of cosmic rays

… Université Paris-Cité, CNRS) . He won the 2022 silver medal from the CNRS in recognition of the unique and important nature of the research he is leading. After completing an engineering degree at the Institute of matter … studies diploma (DEA) in fundamental and nuclear physics from the Université de Caen in 1993, Vincent Tatischeff …

Published on: Thu 21/07/2022 - 15:04

Beams: the Medtech serving surgical oncology

… to improving solid tumour surgery. The Beams start-up arose from a meeting between two researchers. In 2007, Stéphane … sometimes in up to 50% of cases, are significant," comments Laurent Ménard.   Diagnosis and treatment: a … develop this tool, Laurent Ménard used techniques derived from nuclear medicine. This currently covers two major areas …

Published on: Fri 09/12/2022 - 11:43

KALYSTA Actuation: giving robots and exoskeletons muscles

… SEHA project, under the direction of Samer AlFayad at the Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Complex Systems Laboratory … hydraulic technology is disappearing, especially from university curricula," laments Samer AlFayad. "It … hydraulic unit and a cylinder with smart controls. Credits: Samer AlFayad   Since the launch of the KALYSTA …

Published on: Fri 17/03/2023 - 17:43

Yvan Martel: the brilliant career of an expert in nonlinear analysis

… in 1987, he entered a 2-year preparatory course for a competitive exam for the Grande Ecole and joined the École … Sciences in New York for a year thanks to a grant from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. While there, he … as a lecturer in 1997. In 2000, he obtained his Accreditation to Supervise Research (HDR) "This period was …

Published on: Fri 09/06/2023 - 14:58