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Director of the Laboratory of Physiology and Experimental Medicine at Inserm in Montpellier, Alain Lacampagne has just received the CNRS silver medal for his work on the role of calcium homeostasis in pathologies such as heart failure and Duchenne muscular dystrophy. This medal rewards a career focused on a holistic understanding of medicine and on promising therapeutic avenues.

Alison Duncan is a researcher in evolutionary ecology at the Institut des sciences de l'évolution de Montpellier (ISEM). To better understand the dynamics of epidemics, she works on interactions between parasites and between hosts and parasites. In 2022, she received the Mariano Gago springboard prize for bilateral cooperation between France and Portugal.

With his archaeologist-diving robot Ocean One, the director of Stanford's Robotics Lab and world-renowned researcher Oussama Khatib is shining a spotlight on the mysteries of the deep sea and robotics. On February 20, the Franco-American received an honorary doctorate from the University of Montpellier on the recommendation of his French peers Philippe Poignet, Vincent Creuze and Philippe Fraisse, all three researchers in robotics at Lirmm. 

Researcher at the Charles Gerhardt Institute (ICGM) and lecturer in the department of galenic pharmacy and biomaterials at the University of Montpellier, Marie Morille conducts several strategic research projects on the formulation of biotherapies. This has earned her an IUF award in 2022, after having been awarded a junior ANR in 2020.

A professor at the University of Montpellier within the UMR Iate, Christian Jay-Allemand puts teaching and public research to the test in interdisciplinary research and business creation. Last October, he and his colleague Luc Bidel won the Carnot Grand Prize for partnership research for their work on natural antifungals with the company Antofenol.

On the recommendation of Montpellier professor Eric Delaporte, director of the TransVIHMI international joint unit, the University of Montpellier awarded Jean-Jacques Muyembe an honorary doctorate on December 9.

The University of Montpellier honored Canada by awarding the title of honorary doctor to Quebec professors Yves Bergeron and Yves Mauffette on Friday, December 2. This was an opportunity for President Philippe Augé to recall the valuable partnerships that unite the UM not only with the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and Abitbi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) but also with the universities of Laval and Sherbrooke.

Jean-Philippe Pin's career in molecular pharmacology, crowned this year with the Lamonica Prize, is opening up therapeutic avenues for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases. He is director of research at the Institut de génomique fonctionnelle (IGF) in Montpellier.

Raoul Belzeaux, PUPH and psychiatrist at the Montpellier University Hospital, is interested in biomarkers of mental disorders. The researcher has just received the Marcel Dassault Prize for his project of a rapid test for bipolar disorders.

With one foot in evolutionary genomics and the other in bioinformatics, Anna-Sophie Fiston-Lavier of the Montpellier Institute of Evolutionary Sciences (Isem) scans genomes in search of repeated elements capable of influencing species adaptation. She promotes bioinformatics as a scientific discipline in its own right.

She has revolutionized chemistry by making it rhyme with ecology. Claude Grison has just been awarded the European Inventor 2022 prize in the "Research" category by the European Patent Office. A look back at the career of the director of the ChimEco laboratory, for whom dialogue and transdisciplinarity are the keys to innovation.

Under the patronage of Alexandre Viala, professor of public law at the UM, the University of Montpellier had the honor and pleasure of welcoming the Belgian François Ost to award him the title of doctor honoris causa. Portrait of this jurist and philosopher of law who excels in the art of telling the law to better think it.

A researcher at Inria, statistician Julie Josse joined the Desbrest Institute for Epidemiology and Public Health (IDESP) in January 2021 . The missing data specialist has been applying statistical power to the field of health for nearly ten years.

Karim Majzoub leads the "RNA viruses and host factors" research team at the Montpellier Institute of Molecular Genetics (IGMM). Atip-Avenir - MUSE 2020 laureate, he has been awarded a 1.5 million euro grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to conduct his work on delta viruses. A virus responsible for hepatitis D in humans, but recently found in a large number of animal species

Rocio Semino is a researcher at the Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier. Last December, she was awarded a 1.35 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for her work on metal-organic networks. Portrait of a chemist who wields the art of synthesis... without a test tube!

It was on the recommendation of the vice-president in charge of international relations, Patrick Caron, that the University of Montpellier awarded the title of doctor honoris causa to Professor Tawana Kupe last October. A Zimbabwean, this media specialist has had a brilliant career in South Africa, up to his current position as vice-chancellor of the University of Pretoria.