Our latest winners – Second semester 2025

December 17, 2025 | News

Calls for projects 2025 themes:

Omics 2025

  • Alain HOVNANIAN –Imagine Institute for Genetic Diseases, Paris– "Resolving undiagnosed rare genetic developmental and skin diseases"
  • Edoardo MALFATTI –Mondor Institute for Biomedical Research, Paris– "MYOMICS: WGS and sNuclei RNA-sequencing for ultra-rare congenital myopathies"
  • Emmanuel FLAMAND-ROZE –Brain Institute, Paris– "Unravelling the genetic causes of paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia with genome sequencing"
  • Fabienne CHARBIT-HENRION –Imagine Institute for Genetic Diseases, Paris– "PRO-GUT: Integration of lipidomics with spatial transcriptomics to resolve monogenic intestinal disorders affecting the prostaglandin pathway"
  • Jean MONLONG –Digestive Health Research Institute (IRSD), Toulouse– "Boosting diagnosis yield for rare ocular disorders with long-read sequencing"
  • Laïla EL KHATTABI –Sorbonne University, Paris– "Contribution of long-read sequencing to the molecular diagnosis of premature ovarian insufficiency associated with chromosomal translocations"
  • Leslie CARON –Marseille Medical Genetics, Marseille– "Proteomic analysis of undiagnosed muscular dystrophies"
  • Sylvie JAILLARD –Rennes University Hospital, Rennes– "MRKH syndrome uterine agenesis/aplasia and long-read genome sequencing (MUSE project)"
  • Valérie DELAGUE –Marseille Medical Genetics, Marseille– "Long read sequencing of the SORD locus toward improving the diagnosis of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2"
  • Zineb SBIHI –Mondor Institute for Biomedical Research (IMRB), Paris– "Enhancing inborn errors of immunity diagnosis through non-coding sequence analysis"

Translational Research 2024

  • Fabien KAWECKI –Laboratory for the Bioengineering of Tissues – BioTis / Bordeaux– "Long-term evaluation of a biological valve made of cell-assembled extracellular matrix for Tetralogy of Fallot surgical correction"
  • Stephan MATECKI –Physiology and Experimental Medicine of the Heart and Muscles – PhyMedExp / Montpellier– "Can diaphragmatic dysfunction induced by mechanical ventilation in intensive care be prevented using a calcium channel-stabilizing biomolecule? A preclinical study in a large experimental model"
  • Audrey FAYARD –French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) / Fontenay-aux-Roses– "Retinal and brain imaging biomarkers of tau accumulation in a new non-human primate model of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy"

2025 e-Health Master's Scholarship

  • Kirsley CHENNEN –University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg– "IMPatienT2: multimodal artificial intelligence for the classification of hereditary retinal dystrophies"
  • Mohamed Mounir EL MENDILI –Sorbonne University, Paris– "Stratification of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis based on brain and spinal MRI scans and generative adversarial networks"
  • Stéphanie BOREL –Brain Institute (ICM), Paris– "Modeling voice changes in Friedreich's ataxia (AF_EVOLU_VOX)"
  • Anaïs CAVARÉ –University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux– "MOSAIC (Morphology in Oral Rare Syndromes & Artificial Intelligence for Clinical Diagnosis)"
  • Romain FEIGEAN –Institute of Myology (AIM), Paris– "Quantifying gait evolution using artificial intelligence: a new monitoring tool for neuromuscular diseases"
  • Svetlana GOROKHOVA –Marseille Medical Genetics, Marseille– "Transcriptomic signatures for the diagnosis of muscular diseases"
  • Cécile ROUZIER –Université Côte d’Azur, Nice– “Overcoming diagnostic dead ends: functional classification of WFS1 gene variants through structural modeling and geometric learning”

Research grants and awards in partnership :

Research grant with Novo Nordisk

  • Damien OUDIN DOGLIONI –University of Grenoble Alpes (UGA)– "Living with beta-thalassemia in France: patients' subjective experiences, perceptions of beta-thalassemia, and attitudes toward treatment (Vivre-BT)"

Joint calls for projects :

Research award with Defeating Cystic Fibrosis

  • Magdalini DARGENTAS –Psychology Laboratory: Cognition, Behavior, and Communication (LP3C, EA 1285) / Brest– "Study of the psychological effects perceived by patients with cystic fibrosis who are not eligible for Kaftrio: patients, family and friends, and medical staff."