Research Grants
Next Scientific Committee meeting in October 2025: applications to be submitted by July, 31
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 April 2025 session
(subject to acceptance by the competent authority)
- Lounes DJERROUDI
Research Project: “Multimodal AI-based characterization of breast invasive lobular carcinomas”
Host laboratory: Fresia PAREJA MD PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
- Pierre Etienne GABRIEL
Research Project: “Characterization of the tissue, serum, and urinary immune response to dual immunotherapy targeting the HLA-E/NKG2A and PD-1/PD-L1 pathways in BCG-unresponsive high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer.”
Host laboratory: Amir HOROWITZ PhD, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New-York, USA
- Valentin GOUTAUDIER
Research Project: “Virtual human twins for personalizing allograft rejection treatment in kidney transplant patients: the Transplant Twins project”
Host laboratory: Robert A. MONTGOMERY MD, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, USA
- Nassim HAMMOUDI
Research Project: “Unraveling the role of Mycobacterium avium in ileal Crohn’s Disease”
Host laboratory: Marcel BEHR MD, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Matthieu JAMME
Research Project: “Acute kidney injury in ventilated intensive care unit patients: use of phenotyping techniques”
Host laboratory: Matthieu KOMOROWSKI MD PhD, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK
- Jona JOACHIM
Research Project: “Pharmacometrics Digital Twins for Precision Anesthesia”
Host laboratory: Michel STRUYS MD PhD, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
- Alice LE BERRE
Research Project: “Identifying microstructural brain plasticity patterns in severe depression using advanced MRI to guide neuromodulation treatment selection”
Host laboratory: Christopher HESS MD PhD, University of California, San Francisco, USA
- Aurélie MOUROT
Research Project: “SCOLYSS: Score of Lymphoma Risk in Sjögren Syndrome”
Host laboratory: Pr Xavier MARIETTE, Kremlin-Bicêtre Hospital, University of Paris-Saclay, France
- Niki PROCOPI
Research Project: “Pathophysiology and mechanisms underlying arterial wall damage”
Host laboratory: Roxana MEHRAN MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New-York, USA
- Xavier SCHUMACHER
Research Project: “Focused Ultrasound-Enhanced Nanoparticle Delivery and Gene Therapy for Glioblastoma: Overcoming the Blood-Brain Barrier to Activate Anti-Tumor Immunity”
Host laboratory: Betty TYLER BA, Hunterian Lab Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, USA
- Ghazaleh VALIOLLAHPOUR AMIRI
Research Project: “Assessment of Dual-AAV Vector-Mediated MYO7A Expression on Vestibular and Auditory Function in an Adult Mouse Model of Usher Syndrome Type 1B”
Host laboratory: Wade CHIEN MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA