Laura Cantini and Clément Charenton are the two winners of the Prix Claude Paoletti 2022.
This year, Laura Cantini, CNRS research fellow at the Institut de biologie de l’Ecole normale supérieure (IBENS) CNRS / ENS / Inserm and Clément Charenton, CNRS research fellow at the Institut de génétique et de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire (IGBMC) CNRS/Inserm/Université de Strasbourg received the Paoletti Prize for their research work at a ceremony held on November 9, 2022.
This prize, awarded in memory of Claude Paoletti, former Director of the CNRS Life Sciences Department, is intended to support young researchers in biology.
Laura Cantini :
After a thesis on multi-omics data integration obtained in 2016 at the University of Turin, Laura Cantini carried out a postdoc on the same subject in Emmanuel Barillot’s team at the Institut Curie. In 2018, Laura joined CNRS and IBENS as a research fellow. Since then, she has won the L’Oréal-UNESCO Fellowship for Women in Science, multiple funding awards (ANR JCJC, Sanofi iTech Award) and a chair position at the PRAIRIE institute. From 2023, Laura will lead a team focusing on machine learning methods for single-cell data analysis at the Institut Pasteur.
Clément Charenton:
Clément Charenton is a biochemist and structural biologist who studies the metabolism of eukaryotic RNAs. During his thesis at École Polytechnique under the supervision of Marc Graille, he explored the molecular mechanisms of degradation of the protective cap of messenger RNAs. He then joined Kiyoshi Nagai’s team at the MRC-LMB (Cambridge UK), for a post-doctorate on the mechanisms of RNA splicing by the spliceosome. In 2021, Clément joined the CNRS as a research fellow and, in 2022, obtained ATIPAvenir funding to set up his own research team at the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC) in Strasbourg.
The CNRS Foundation is committed to highlighting young scientists whose work matches Claude Paoletti’s vision, and has decided to support this prize.
Above and beyond the memory work done by Mr. Paoletti’s entourage (but also the CNRS Foundation), this is above all a real opportunity for young researchers in search of funding or legitimacy.
The CNRS Foundation warmly congratulates the two prizewinners on their work and wishes them every success in their careers.
