Mara Dierssen receives the International Sisley-Jerome Lejeune Award

The neurobiologist and researcher of the Centre for Genomic Regulation, Mara Dierssen, has been awarded the yearly Sisley-Jerome Lejeune Foundation Prize of this foundation. The award ceremony was held on June 21 in the Museum of History of Medicine of Paris.

With this prize, which is worth 20.000 euros, the Sisley-Jerome Lejeune Foundation wants to reward the efforts of those research groups whose work contributes to the advance of therapeutic research in genetic diseases that affect cognitive development. This is the case of Mara Dierssen and her team of scientists from the Neurobehavioral Phenotyping of Mouse Models of Diseases group, part of the Genes and Disease programme at the Center for Genomic Regulation. 
 

The Sisley-Jerome Lejeune Foundation

The Sisley-Jerome Lejeune Foundation was created in 1996 and since then has been engaged in promoting and helping basic research to find new therapies for genetic diseases that affect cognitive ability.

In the last 10 years, the Scientific Council of the Foundation has funded over 400 research projects in France and internationally, to advance the understanding of these diseases and design new therapies. 

For the Foundation is also of utmost importance to spread, both among patients and their families and society in general, progress in research being carried out in this area.