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Yves Gaudin: Understanding and modifying viral factories

… Yves Gaudin: Understanding and modifying viral factories Yves Gaudin: … Paris-Saclay. He is also involved in the Maladies infectieuses émergentes (Emerging infectious diseases - MIE) working … Asia and South America,” says Yves Gaudin. “Luckily, because of the way it is transmitted, there can’t be an epidemic …

Published on: Thu 19/05/2022 - 16:17

Circulating DNA offers hope for lung cancer

… a cancer specialist working at the Molecular Predictors and New Targets in Oncology Unit (PMNCO - Université … next five years. This disease is now the fourth leading cause of death in the world but remains difficult to diagnose … its progress is complicated as it requires regular use of medical imaging. If the idea of analysing blood in …

Published on: Thu 02/06/2022 - 10:50

Alexandra Rouquette: preventing mental health disorders in children and adolescents

… Alexandra Rouquette: preventing mental health disorders in … and epidemiology, methodological problems related to the use of psychometrics”. Epidemiology is a discipline which … and other researchers in France, Belgium and Switzerland have set up the RéFLiS network on health literacy …

Published on: Fri 09/09/2022 - 16:50

Marie Gernigon: understanding and optimising physical performance for all

… Marie Gernigon: understanding and optimising physical performance for all Marie … with two researchers, one in France, the other in England. "My work was supervised by Alain Varray , an exercise … blood in the muscles that are effectors of walking, which causes tingling and severe pain that forces people to stop …

Published on: Fri 25/11/2022 - 18:51

Spintronics appeals to artificial intelligence

… acquired through machine learning methods, are now used to implement facial recognition, develop autonomous cars and operate social networks. However, because it is difficult for these systems to learn new skills … acquired through machine learning methods, are now used to implement facial recognition, develop autonomous …

Published on: Thu 09/02/2023 - 11:49

Fabrice Barlesi: helping to cure cancer in the 21st century

… Barlesi is Professor of Medicine at Université Paris-Saclay and General Director of Gustave Roussy . He specialises in … in 1994 and defended his PhD thesis in 1999. His thesis focused on how best to tailor and personalise treatment … of the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam (Netherlands). He returned to Marseille the following year as a …

Published on: Thu 09/02/2023 - 11:59

Emmanuel Flurin: When quantum technologies play with the laws of the Universe

… (SPEC - Univ. Paris-Saclay, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission CEA, National Centre for … to describe most physical phenomena at the atomic scale, we use the language of quantum computing, based on the qubit," … Paris-Saclay. "We're listened to around the world because of the quality and originality of our work", says the …

Published on: Thu 31/08/2023 - 16:00

FUNGADAPT, ArTIFICE: studying cheese for a better understanding of evolutionary mechanisms

… FUNGADAPT, ArTIFICE: studying cheese for a better understanding of evolutionary mechanisms FUNGADAPT, ArTIFICE: … "Domestication is a good model for studying evolution, because it is the result of a strong, recent selection process … How can genetic diversity be reintegrated into the fungi used to make Camembert? Among the avenues considered by …

Published on: Mon 11/09/2023 - 08:02

Jacqueline Cherfils: from molecular switches to drugs

… is CNRS Director of Research at the Laboratory of Biology and Applied Pharmacology (LBPA - Univ. Paris-Saclay, CNRS, … in understanding their natural mechanisms and their use for therapeutic purposes. "My daily motivation? … in ON/OFF mode In her research, Jacqueline Cherfils uses integrative structural biology, a combination of …

Published on: Wed 04/10/2023 - 10:09

Aline Lefebvre-Lepot: modelling and simulating granular flows

… Aline Lefebvre-Lepot: modelling and simulating granular flows Aline Lefebvre-Lepot: … engineers specialising in high-performance computing." Used with other researchers from the Fluids, Automation and … research, conducted in partnership with Luiz Faria, focuses on deformable particles. "These consist of a membrane …

Published on: Wed 24/01/2024 - 09:45

Kęstutis Česnavičius, tackling mathematical conjectures

… conjectures Kęstutis Česnavičius is a mathematician and CNRS research fellow at the Mathematics Laboratory of … by the French Academy of Sciences for solving the Auslander-Goldman, Grothendieck and Gabber purity conjectures. … moved to the USA, where he completed his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the arithmetic of …

Published on: Fri 03/05/2024 - 17:22

David Planchard: revolutionising targeted therapies for lung cancer

… He is also Associate Professor at Université Paris-Saclay and a member of the Genetic Adaptation to Kinase Inhibitors team within the Molecular Predictors and New Targets in Oncology unit (PMNCO - Univ. … we can't identify a targetable molecular alteration, we use immunotherapy. This involves unmasking tumour cells in …

Published on: Sat 05/10/2024 - 08:00