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With her young team specializing in inflammatory immune mechanisms at the Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (IGMM), Nadine Laguette is multiplying her successes. In ten years, she has made several key discoveries and won no fewer than three prestigious European ERC grants. At the end of 2022, she was awarded the Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca de l'Institut de France cancerology prize.  

A world-renowned researcher in the field of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), Michel Bouvier has contributed to numerous fundamental and therapeutic discoveries on these proteins, which are the target of over 30% of drugs on the market. Many Montpellier researchers have trained with this professor from the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montréal. In 2023, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Montpellier.

Ludovic Berthier is Director of Research in Statistical Physics at the Charles Coulomb Laboratory and Research Associate at Cambridge University. Last March, this author of over 200 publications was awarded the CNRS silver medal for 25 years of research into disordered physical systems.

A great name in paleontology, Colombian Carlos Jaramillo is a specialist in the evolution of Amazonian-Andean ecosystems over the last 120 million years. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute researcher explained the origin of the abundant biodiversity of this intertropical region.

Director of the Laboratory of Physiology and Experimental Medicine (University of Montpellier / CNRS / Inserm), Alain Lacampagne has just been awarded the CNRS silver medal for his work on the role of calcium homeostasis in pathologies such as heart failure and Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The medal rewards a career focused on a holistic understanding of medicine and 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 was awarded the Mariano Gago springboard prize for bilateral cooperation between France and Portugal. 

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

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

Professor at the University of Montpellier's UMR Iate, Christian Jay-Allemand puts teaching and public research to the test through interdisciplinarity and business creation. Last October, he and his colleague Luc Bidel won the Carnot Grand Prix for partnership research for their work on natural antifungals with the Antofenol company.

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.

On Friday December 2, the University of Montpellier honored Canada by awarding honorary doctorates to Quebec professors Yves Bergeron and Yves Mauffette. It 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 the Université du Québec en Abitbi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), but also with the universities of Laval and Sherbrooke.

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 for 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.