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Loïc Bertrand: Revealing previously unseen heritage knowledge through micro-imaging

… Loïc Bertrand: Revealing previously unseen heritage knowledge through … two researchers at the Research Laboratory of the Museums of France (LRMF, known today as the C2RMF) and these … Paris in order to complete his doctorate there. His PhD focused on the study of keratinised tissues and their …

Published on: Fri 22/10/2021 - 09:25

TheraPanacea: using artificial intelligence to improve the quality and access to cancer treatment and beyond

… using artificial intelligence to improve the quality and access to cancer treatment and beyond TheraPanacea: … of radiotherapy.  TheraPanacea was created in 2017 and uses mathematics, physics, artificial intelligence and … on the market. He realised that radiotherapy, which was used in 60% of cases, could still be further improved. “I …

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

Thierry Naas: The fight against antibiotic resistance

… Thierry Naas is a lecturer at Université Paris-Saclay, and a hospital practitioner at Bicêtre Hospital. Based in … of the pharmaceutical company Roche, in Basel (Switzerland)." There, the young researcher discovered the process … preserve the efficacy of antibiotics such as carbapenems, used as a last resort to treat severe Gram-negative …

Published on: Thu 16/02/2023 - 18:01

Benjamin Besse: a deeper understanding of thoracic cancers

… Benjamin Besse: a deeper understanding of thoracic cancers Benjamin Besse: a deeper … passionate about what they were doing," Benjamin Besse enthuses. Having completed his medical studies, he was offered … for the body than the chemotherapies that had long been in use. "We had the opportunity to put together a lot of …

Published on: Thu 23/02/2023 - 15:22

Isabelle Grenier: studying the interaction between cosmic rays and interstellar gas

… Grenier: studying the interaction between cosmic rays and interstellar gas Isabelle Grenier: studying the … from the first phases of definition to the current use of the observations," enthuses the researcher. After convincing NASA of the relevance … from the first phases of definition to the current use of the observations," enthuses the researcher. After …

Published on: Fri 24/03/2023 - 10:12

Nabila Aghanim: what measuring the cosmos reveals

… portraits Research Nabila Aghanim is an astrophysicist and cosmologist at the Institute of Space Astrophysics (IAS … the overall project and its collective successes," she enthuses.   Finding the hidden matter of the Universe In 2017, … the geometry of the dark Universe. At the same time as she uses Planck data, Nabila Aghanim has been collaborating on …

Published on: Thu 13/04/2023 - 15:44

Drug candidates: maximising potential through the synthesis of three-dimensional and chiral molecules

… Drug candidates: maximising potential through the synthesis of … and effective. In his scientific article Escape from flatland, published in 2009, American chemist Franck Lovering … not effective: the molecules with the best chances of being used as drugs are not flat. On the contrary, they have a …

Published on: Wed 16/07/2025 - 08:35

Anne Broise: from mathematical abstraction to educational value

… to educational value Anne Broise is a mathematician and lecturer at Université Paris-Saclay. She is responsible … in the academic world, but is one for which she makes no excuses. "I didn't want to move, and I didn't want to take the … repeated over time, give rise to chaotic behaviour? She focused specifically on the dilating transformations of the …

Published on: Wed 01/10/2025 - 10:35

Fungi: shining a light on a hidden kingdom and its fascinating powers

… Fungi: shining a light on a hidden kingdom and its fascinating powers Fungi: shining a light on a … they were wrongly placed alongside plants, largely because of their immobility. " It took a very long time for … " It's often compared to the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland who has to keep running just to stay in the same place …

Published on: Wed 19/11/2025 - 13:55

Micheline Misrahi-Abadou: personalising infertility treatments

… Misrahi-Abadou is an emeritus professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Paris-Saclay Faculty of medicine . Her pioneering work on the genetic causes of infertility has not only paved the way to … for TSH, the thyroid-stimulating hormone, followed. These landmarks motivated Micheline Misrahi-Abadou to begin …

Published on: Fri 16/05/2025 - 08:05

ERC consolidator: five researchers affiliated with Université Paris-Saclay awarded for their projects

… early months of his PhD, he formulated a method to understand non-ergodicity in open quantum systems and developed a … with large effects. So far, research has mainly focused on the "gymnastics" of their mobilisation, their … structure and evolution. To this end, the project will use approaches from proteomics, interactomics, epigenomics, …

Published on: Tue 09/12/2025 - 11:17

Generative AI: The algorithms revolutionising content creation

… lives. But what is generative AI? How does it work? And what are its benefits and limitations? We take a deeper … months after its launch, it already had over 100 million users. ChatGPT is still the best-known and most widely used generative AI, with around 1.8 billion monthly visits …

Published on: Thu 06/02/2025 - 15:03