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
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