Research Grants
Next Scientific Committee meeting in March 2026: applications to be submitted before 31January for mobility effective from June 2026
L’Institut Servier Research Grants are awarded for one year of research, enabling:
- French researchers, future PhDs or postdocs in medicine or pharmacy wishing to acquire additional training and/or supplement their research project abroad.
- Or foreign researchers, future PhDs or postdocs wishing to supplement their training in France, with priority given to the following therapeutic areas: oncology, immuno-inflammatory diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, and paediatric diseases.
Eligibility criteria:
- Reason for the mobility and why it is necessary
- Candidate’s scientific studies and publications
- Project utility, relevance and scientific quality
- Candidate’s personal implication in the project
- Added value for the research team
- Candidate’s plans for further study after project completion
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In 2018, Professor Edwige SIRANSY BALAYSSAC received financial support from the Servier Institute for her enrollment in the Inter-University Diploma (DIU) in Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation at Paris Descartes University, France.
Thanks to the skills acquired and then shared with her colleagues, Professor Edwige SIRANSY BALAYSSAC was able to open a Research and Prevention Center within the Faculty of Medical Sciences in Abidjan (Félix Houphouët-Boigny University, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire) with a unit dedicated to the prevention and rehabilitation of chronic diseases.
She recently sent us the images below taken during the inauguration of the center on October 10, 2023.
On October 10, 2023, the Pascal BOGUI Research and Prevention Center – Medical Physiology and Pathophysiology was officially inaugurated at the Faculty of Medical Sciences in Abidjan at Félix Houphouët-Boigny University, in the presence of the Vice-President of the University, Professor SANGARE Abdoulaye (representing the President of the University, Professor BALLO Zié), Deans and Vice-Deans, faculty members, and researchers from the said university.
Grant Winners of the October 2025 session
(subject to acceptance by the competent authority)
- Emily ALOUANI
Research Project: “Investigating mechanisms of aneuploidy and impact of the level and type of aneuploidy on immunotherapy resistance”
Host laboratory: Benoit ROUSSEAU MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New-York, USA
- Charles CASSIUS
Research Project: “Deciphering the Role of Wnt/β-Catenin Pathway in the Pathophysiology of Hidradenitis Suppurativa“
Host laboratory: Liv EIDSMO MD, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Fanny CHASSELOUP
Research Project: “Deciphering the role of KDM1A/LSD1 in pioneer factor PAX7-induced epigenome remodeling in pituitary melanotropic cells”
Host laboratory: Jacques DROUIN PhD, IRCM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Inès FENNIRI
Research Project: “Rapid Molecular Diagnosis of Severe Paediatric Ocular Infections Using BCID2“
Host laboratory: Michael S. GILMORE PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
- Géraud FORESTIER
Research Project: “Clinical studies in OCT in the treatment of intracranial aneurysms treated endovascularly with stent, and in robotic mechanical thrombectomies in the treatment of ischemic stroke with proximal occlusion”
Host laboratory: Vitor Mendes PEREIRA MD, MSc, Radis Lab, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Toronto, Canada
- Alexis GUEDON
Research Project: “Integrating Genomic, Epidemiological, and Pharmaco-epidemiological Approaches to Investigate Risk Factors, Prognosis, and Therapeutic Strategies in Peripheral Artery Disease: A Multinational Cohort Study”
Host laboratory: Børge G NORDESTGAARD MD, DMSc, Copenhagen University Hospital – Herlev Gentofte, Denmark
- Guillaume GUIMBRETIERE
Research Project: “Study on the role of the apolipoproteome in the degeneration process of bioprostheses”
Host laboratory: Philippe PIBAROT PhD, Institut Universitaire de Pneumologie, Université de Laval, Quebec, Canada
- Maxime JULLIEN
Research Project: “Preventing exhaustion of therapeutic NK-cells”
Host laboratory: Quentin GOUIL PhD, Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, HEAL, Heidelberg Victoria, Australia
- Vincent L’ALLINEC
Research Project: “Pathophysiology of Intracranial Aneurysms: Role of Geometric Parameters and Hemodynamic Analysis at the Bifurcation and Aneurysm Site”
Host laboratory: Sven HIRSCH MD PhD and Zsolt KULSCAR MD PhD, ZHAW School of Life Sciences and Facility Management and University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland
- Guillaume LE COSQUER
Research Project: “Age-related frailty and inflammatory bowel diseases: towards safer and individualized treatment strategies”
Host laboratory: : Ashwin ANANTHAKRISHNAN MD MPH, Massachusetts General Hospital, Crohn’s and Colitis Center, Boston, USA
- Hadil MAADADI
Research Project: “Evaluation of PAD4 inhibitor and ADAMTS13 combination to target NETosis in ARDS”
Host laboratory: Denisa WAGNER PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA
- Mohamad SABBAH
Research Project: “Neoantigen Vaccines (NeoVax) in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Integrated Analysis of Functional Immune Monitoring, T Cell Clonal Dynamics, and Proteogenomic Analyses”
Host laboratory: Catherine J. WU MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA