The Department rewards research excellence in Provence in 2023

Celebrating the scientific excellence of our region

The Prix Départemental pour la Recherche en Provence (Departmental Prize for Research in Provence) celebrates the scientific excellence of our region by rewarding the work of researchers in the exact, human, social and medical sciences. These prizes highlight work that is cutting-edge, but essential for the future, and which contributes to Provence's influence and attractiveness.

Three departmental prizes are awarded each year:

• The Grand Prix is awarded to an active researcher and/or research team for outstanding results or achievements that have enabled them to acquire a certain notoriety.

• The Prix Jeune Chercheur (Young Researcher's Prize ) is awarded to a researcher under the age of 40, in recognition of the new research perspectives he or she has opened up within his or her discipline.

  The Prix Spécial (Special Prize ) is intended to highlight an outstanding discovery or result achieved by a researcher and/or a research team in a new theme defined by the Department: "Research and technology transfer, innovating for the region, research work leading to applications serving the region and its inhabitants".

   

Daniel Olive, winner of the Grand Prix 2023

Daniel Olive is Professor of Immunology at Aix-Marseille Université, and also works at the Institut Paoli Calmettes and the Cancer Research Center of Marseille (AMU/IPC/CNRS). He is being rewarded for the development of research themes exploring the signaling pathways regulating the functions of innate and acquired immunity.

Also nominated:

• Johannes Ziegler, director of the Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (AMU/CNRS) and member of the Scientific Council of the French Ministry of Culture.
• Philippe Moulin, AMU professor at the Laboratoire de Mécanique Modélisation et Procédés Propres (AMU/CNRS/Centrale Méditerranée).

Discover their work in the video below (in French):

Héloïse Berkowitz, winner of the Prix Jeune Chercheur 2023

Héloïse Berkowitz is a CNRS research fellow at the Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail (AMU/CNRS). She is being rewarded for her work on the importance of multi-stakeholder meta-organizations for managing major contemporary challenges.

Also nominated:

• Isabelle Dautriche, CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (AMU/CNRS).
• Maud Gratuze, AMU research fellow at the Institut de Neurophysiopathologie (AMU/CNRS).

Discover their work in the video below (in French):

Eric Cascales, winner of the Prix Spécial 2023

Dr. Eric Cascales is CNRS Research Director at the Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Macromoléculaires (AMU/CNRS). He and his research team have been rewarded for their work on the mechanisms of competition between bacteria in the microbiota of the human digestive tract.

Also nominated:

• Bastien Bissaro, INRAE research fellow at the Laboratoire Biodiversité et biotechnologie Fongiques (INRAE/AMU/Polytechnique)
• Vincent Vidal, Professor of Radiology at AP-HM and Professor of Medicine at Aix-Marseille Université.

Discover their work in the video below (in French):