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ANRS MIE Start Program: eight Institut Pasteur scientists selected for 2026 research grants
Since 2024, the Start Program run by ANRS Emerging Infectious Diseases (ANRS MIE) has supported early career scientists working in ANRS MIE's research fields, namely HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted infections and emerging infectious diseases, by providing funding, training, business development and networking schemes.
This year, 38 early career scientists received a research grant for their PhD or postdoctoral project, including eight Institut Pasteur scientists.
Five laureates in the 2026 "Research grants – Emerging infectious diseases" call for applications
Five of the ten grants awarded in the 2026 "Research grants – Emerging infectious diseases" call for applications were allocated to early career scientists at the Institut Pasteur to support their PhD, fourth-year PhD or postdoctoral project on emerging infectious diseases.
Alejandro De Cruz Hiernaux, for his PhD project on "Understanding the contribution of complement to the neutralization of coronaviruses," in the Virus and Immunity Unit led by James Di Santo.
Typhaine Filhol, for the fourth year of her PhD with the project "Identification and characterization of cellular factors required for enterovirus D replication," in the Viral Adaptation and Spillover Unit led by Nolwenn Jouvenet.
Deniz Uresin, for the fourth year of his PhD with the project "Innate Sensing from RNA virus infection to mRNA vaccine," in the Interactomics, RNA and Immunity laboratory led by Caroline Demeret.
Luc Fery-Simonian, for his postdoctoral project "Host genetics and immunity shaping host-vector interactions in TBEV infection," in the Mouse Genetics, Immunity and Infections laboratory led by Christian Vosshenrich.
Ighor Arantes Gomes, for his postdoctoral project "Deep-learning Phylodynamic Models for Arboviral Transmission Dynamics," carried out in the Evolutionary Dynamics of Infectious Diseases five-year group led by Sebastian Duchene and the Modeling of Pathogens: Evolution, Adaptation and Spread team led by Anna Zhukova.
Three laureates in the 2026 "HIV/AIDS, STIs, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis" call for proposals
Of the 28 research grants awarded in the "HIV/AIDS, STIs, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis" call for proposals, three went to Institut Pasteur scientists to fund their PhD or postdoctoral project on a topic related to HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), viral hepatitis or tuberculosis.
Jordi Sevilla-Fortuny, for his PhD project "Phylodynamic models for uncovering transmission heterogeneity of bacterial STIs: leveraging genome surveillance data of Neisseria gonorrhoea," in the Evolutionary Dynamics of Infectious Diseases five-year group led by Sebastian Duchene.
Albane Knoche, for her PhD project "Impact of pulmonary tuberculosis on brain health: a multi-model study in mice and non-human primates," in the Integrated Mycobacterial Pathogenomics Unit led by Roland Brosch.
Camilla Tiezzi, for her postdoctoral project "Study of antiviral and immunological mechanisms of a capsid assembly modulator in HBV infection," carried out in the group led by Hélène Strick-Marchand, Humanized Mice for Infectious Disease Modeling, within the Innate Immunity Unit led by James Di Santo.