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Han Li

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Han Li is a principle investigator at the Institut Pasteur, where she leads the cellular plasticity in age-related pathologies group in the department of developmental and stem cell biology. She studied genomic stability in cancer and aging under Dr. Paul Hasty's supervision at the University of Texas, health science center at San Antonio, and obtained PhD in 2007. Next, she performed her postdoc training in Dr. Manuel Serrano's lab at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, investigating the role of tumor suppressors in cellular reprogramming.

Chantal Desdouets

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Chantal Desdouets leads the "Genomic Instability, Metabolism, Immunity and Liver Tumorigenesis" team at the Centre Recherche des Cordeliers in Paris. A world-renowned expert, Dr Desdouets's research focuses on the intricate processes of hepatic division and polyploidization in both healthy and diseased states. Her team is particularly investigating the link between obesity associated with overfeeding and/or sedentary lifestyles and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), a spectrum that includes metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH).

Jean-Emmanuel Sarry

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Jean-Emmanuel Sarry is a Team Leader at the Cancer Research Center of Toulouse (France) and a Principal Investigator in Hemato-Oncology and Metabolism at the French Health Institute (Inserm). Dr. Sarry received his PhD degree in Biochemistry from the University of Montpellier.  He also completed his postdoctoral training in Plant and Yeast Metabolism at the Department of Plant Physiology (CEA, Grenoble, France) and the Department of Biology (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia).

INEM Scientific Photo Contest – 2025 Edition

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We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2nd INEM Scientific Photo Contest, which once again highlighted the creativity and scientific diversity of our institute. From cellular landscapes to experimental snapshots, this year’s submissions showcased the fascinating beauty of science.

Jury’s Choice Awards

1st Prize – Mathieu Deygas — Neutro In Vitraux
2nd Prize – Tahina Randresy — First-ever Stem Cells Capable of Growing Forests
3rd Prize – Ana Raquel Cruz — Brief Encounters

Public Vote Winners

Khaled Tighanimine receives the Fondation ARC Oberling-Haguenau Thesis Prize

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We are proud to share that Khaled Tighanimine, former PhD student at INEM under the supervision of Mario Pende and Stefano Fumagalli, has been awarded a Fondation ARC Oberling-Haguenau Thesis Prize during the 2025 Trophées de la Recherche ceremony.

This award highlights Khaled's remarkable doctoral work in the field of cancer research, carried out at INEM.

Our congratulations to Khaled and to all the laureates of this edition!

Elvira Mass

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Elvira Mass studied biology at the University of Bonn and did her PhD thesis at the Life and Medical Sciences Institute (LIMES) in Bonn. In 2014, she moved to Frederic Geissmann's laboratory at King's College in London and followed him a few months later to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. From there she returned to the LIMES Institute in Bonn in 2017 as a group leader. In 2019, she became Associate Professor for "Integrated Immunology" at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Bing Su

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Bing Su is Director of the Shanghai Institute of Immunology and Chair of the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, where he also holds a KC Wong Chair Professorship. He co-founded the SJTU-Yale Institute for Immune Metabolism and is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Immunobiology at Yale University.

Juliane Da Graça awarded the 2025 Thesis Prize of the Club Exo-Endo

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We are proud to announce that Juliane Da Graça, former PhD student at INEM, has been awarded the 2025 Thesis Prize of the Club Exocytose-Endocytose (Club Exo-Endo).

Juliane carried out her doctoral research in the MEMBRAMICS Lab, under the supervision of Etienne Morel. Her work focused on the role of contact sites between the endoplasmic reticulum and endosomes in the regulation of autophagy, both in physiological and cancer contexts.