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Sepsis: a long-term battle, new issues and goals

… complications be avoided? These are questions that the Prometheus University Hospital Institute (IHU), which comprises … parasitic or fungal infection with an acute and sudden onset. The disease is also defined by its long-term … thirty years, Djillali Annane is now head of the Prometheus University Hospital Institute (IHU), whose aim is to …

Published on: Fri 14/02/2025 - 15:20

Nose, olfaction and fragrance: giving a sense to smell

… renewed public interest during the Covid-19 pandemic. And yet, scientists from a wide range of fields have been … capable, by creating multiple combinations, of smelling between ten thousand and one trillion (one billion billion) … transmit the signal to the brain. The brain then interprets it as a scent.   The first experimental structure of a …

Published on: Wed 26/02/2025 - 15:28

David Attié and Sébastien Procureur: From Saclay's water tower to the Great Pyramid of Giza

… particles originating from cosmic rays – to characterize detectors and develop a "cosmic bench"1. "I always wanted to … with my preschool teacher, who introduced us to a new planet in the solar system every week."  After graduating from … aspiration to "be an inventor". While preparing for competitive exams to gain admission to graduate school, he lived …

Published on: Wed 14/11/2018 - 09:00

Jean-Marie Mirebeau: Calculating the shortest path

… partial differential equations using algorithmic geometry tools. He has thus developed his own digital solutions … seismic tomography, the configuration of radar systems, etc. The winner of the 2020 GAMNI-SMAI Blaise Pascal prize … Général de Mathématiques, the General Mathematics Competition (supervised by Thomas Lafforgue). “For the first …

Published on: Fri 05/02/2021 - 16:16

Claire Gaudichon: Stable isotopes to track dietary proteins in the body

… Claire Gaudichon: Stable isotopes to track dietary proteins in the body Claire Gaudichon: Stable isotopes to track dietary proteins in the body Researcher portraits Research   … She is also the director of the Physiologie de la nutrition et du comportement alimentaire (Nutritional Physiology and …

Published on: Fri 16/04/2021 - 14:20

SPARK - reducing CO2 emissions and decentralising hydrogen production

… PhD. A former PhD student at the “Énergétique moléculaire et macroscopique, combustion” (Molecular and macroscopic energetics, combustion) laboratory (EM2C - Université … 2019 after having studied at Centrale Paris, where he completed a specialist course in energy. The aim of SPARK is to …

Published on: Wed 09/06/2021 - 08:45

Sophie Kazamias: Compressing the infinitely powerful

… This means that we don’t need buildings of hundreds of metres long to house the metal cavities used in current technology, because the … and European investment. Funded by a planning agreement between national and regional governments (CPER) from 2003, …

Published on: Thu 31/03/2022 - 17:12

Pascal Corbel: A Business-Minded Academic

… professor at Université Paris-Saclay, a researcher in the Network, Innovation, Territories, Globalization (RITM - … de Caen and Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University), Pascal Corbel was still unsure of what direction to take in his career after completing his Master’s degree. “I could see myself as a …

Published on: Thu 28/04/2022 - 16:06

François Sarfati: understanding the mechanisms of social vulnerability

… he then continued at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Cnam) where he defended his thesis in 2005. His … examined the mechanisms by which uncertainty in labour markets increases from the perspective of those who take … of view of those who had difficulty integrating into society, those who were in an insecure situation and those who …

Published on: Thu 12/05/2022 - 15:30

Reading tree cores to better predict global warming

… Reading tree cores to better predict global warming Reading tree cores to better predict global warming Research How can we assess the … Grant in January 2022. More than a third of the planet’s land surface is covered by forests. The trees and …

Published on: Thu 19/05/2022 - 16:31

Jean-Pierre Hermier: the optics of semiconductor nanocrystals

… In 2006, he started a collaboration with Benoît Dubertret's team at the Laboratory of Physics and Materials Studies (LPEM) of the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI Paris). Together, in 2008, they succeeded in synthesising nanocrystals …

Published on: Mon 26/09/2022 - 15:18

Subcutaneous chemotherapy, a solution to ease cancer treatment?

… the same period. Worldwide, more than 18 million cases are detected annually, resulting in nearly 10 million deaths. … proliferation of cells whose DNA, the carrier of genetic information, has certain mutations. This uncontrolled … surgical procedure to remove the tumour, is the preferred method. When such a procedure is no longer feasible, for …

Published on: Thu 17/11/2022 - 11:02