Stéphane Baudouin receives the 2013 Life Sciences Award
5 September 2013
The Junior Debiopharm Group Life Sciences Awards 2013 was awarded during the annual EPFL Life Science Symposium (LSS2013), to the PostDoc student from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel.
Stéphane Baudouin, PostDoc in the laboratory of Peter Scheiffele, from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, and member of Synapsy, has been awarded this year’s Junior Debiopharm Group Life Science Award. The prize is destined to young researchers in Switzerland, in the wider field of cellular and molecular biology, based on excellence in previous work and originality of future projects.
Stéphane Baudouin received this award for his spectacular research in neuroscience. During his postdoctoral studies he analyzed neuronal defects in mouse models of autism. He could identify an unexpected convergence of pathophysiology of different forms of autism, uncovering a common dysfunction of a synaptic plasticity pathway. In ongoing work Stéphane implemented therapeutic intervention strategies that rescue anatomical and behavioral abnormalities in the mouse model. His future goals are to launch an independent research group where he will study the neuronal underpinnings of social behavior and social abnormalities in autism.
The prize was handed over at the Annual EPFL Life Science Symposium and amounts to CHF 25’000. Every year, two young researchers at the advanced postdoc or early junior group leader stage under the age of 33 are honored with the Junior Debiopharm Group Life Sciences Award.
Author : Katrin Bühler UNIBAS
