École normale supérieure de Lyon

Infectious diseases, the main causes of human mortality according to the WHO, have always been a particular concern for society.

Doctors and patients are often homogenized into two main categories: the caregivers and the people receiving treatment. But everyone has their own specificities, depending on their experience, their training, where they come from, etc.

This award is given for theses defended in 2018 on viral hepatitis.

Two complementary publications from RDP laboratory and IXXI institute set out to define a systemic approach to the major challenges of the present.

Publication by International Center for Research Infectiology (CIRI) in Nature communications on January 3, 2019.

Publication of the International Center for Infectiology Research (CIRI) in the journal Science direct on December 13, 2018.

Marie Bannier, a former normal student in the Biology Department at the ENS de Lyon, participated in the research and writing of this scientific publication as part of her 4th year.

Over the last few years, scientists have discovered connections between gut microbiota imbalances and various diseases. Now, in a study using mice, biologists from the CNRS, INSERM, and Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University —together with colleagues from the Institut Pasteur de Lille and the NIH (USA)— have revealed a surprising relationship between a viral detection system, the composition of the gut microbiota, and the development of skin allergies. Their findings, published in PNAS (September 24, 2018) suggest potential new therapies.

Potential role of flimsy antibiotic exposure

The research team of Gaël Yvert at Laboratory of Biology and Modeling of the Cell (LBMC) has discovered mutations that increase cell proliferation in conditions of repeated stress.

Plastic Bodies is already well on its way to becoming a touchstone in the medical anthropology and STS literatures on gender, bodies, and pharmaceuticals.

CIRI publication

Emilia Sanabria