Portraits of the UM

Jean-Philippe Pin, Director of Research at Montpellier's Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle (IGF), won this year's Lamonica award for his career in molecular pharmacology, which has opened up new therapeutic avenues for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases.

Straddling psychiatry and molecular biology, Raoul Belzeaux, PUPH and psychiatrist at Montpellier University Hospital, is interested in biomarkers of mental disorders. He has just been awarded the Marcel Dassault prize for his project to develop a rapid test for bipolar disorders.

With one foot in evolutionary genomics and the other in bioinformatics, Anna-Sophie Fiston-Lavier of Montpellier's Institut des sciences de l'évolution (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, making it an ecologically sound business. 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 and awarding him an honorary doctorate. Here is a portrait of this jurist and legal philosopher, who excels in the art of recounting the law in order to better understand it.

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