An Award to grant the best oral presentations made by a young researcher was assigned this afternoon, at the end of the Second Annual European Vascular Genomics Network (EVGN) Meeting, held in Hamburg from Sept. 27th to 30th. Five communications were selected from the submitted abstracts, and evaluated by a jury of five members. The winner of the "Young Investigator Award Competition" is St?phane Potteaux, PhD student at INSERM (Institut National de la Sant? et de la Recherche M?dicale, Paris, France).

The work of Potteaux is focused on regulatory T cells (T reg) and atherosclerosis. T cells play a key role in the inflammatory processes that can trigger atherosclerosis. The study shows that two kinds of T cells are involved in the disease development: one pathogenic (i.e. classical T cells) and one "protective" (regulatory T cells).

"Young scientist are the future of research" comments Alain Tedgui, EVGN Scientific Coordinator and head of the INSERM's laboratory where St?phane is working. "And this award is meant to acknowledge the importance of their work within the integrative framework of European Science". The European Vascular Genomics Network is a UE funded Network of Excellence (evgn).

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SOURCE: alphagalileo