Award
The SBCF is pleased to award its annual SBCF Young Researcher Prize of €5,000 to Meryem Baghdadi, who currently works as a CNRS researcher in the Cell Biology and Cancer Unit (UMR 144) at the Institut Curie in Paris. She was recently awarded a Group Leader position at the Institut Necker–Enfants Malades and will establish her lab in January 2025.
Meryem Baghdadi’s remarkable work has focused on the detailed analysis of the biology of stem cells and the subtle interplay with their microenvironments since her PhD training at the Institut Pasteur, her further postdoctoral experience in Toronto, and now as a CNRS permanent researcher. After uncovering the active mechanisms controlling the quiescence of muscle stem cells, Meryem Baghdadi now explores the properties of intestinal stem cells and their privileged interactions within micro-niches, with both fundamental and applied perspectives in regenerative medicine.
She will receive her award during the General Assembly, which will take place on June 18th, 2024 at Institut Cochin (Paris, 75014) during which she will give a talk entitled “The multiple faces of stem cell-niche interactions”.
