The SILAB - Jean PAUFIQUE Corporate Foundation
Published on 3/2/2023
Updated on 8/1/2024
“Since 2007 and every year since, the mission of our Foundation has been to finance research projects in the area of skin diseases, in particular cancer. Beyond the financial investment, it is above all the human commitment of an entire team. Doctors, researchers, university professors, they all stand alongside us to advance medical research.”
Jean Paufique, Founder of SILAB
Support medical research
The SILAB - Jean PAUFIQUE Corporate Foundation provides annual support for medical research, renewable for up to three years.
Regardless of the scientific discipline, this sum supports young doctoral students or post-doctoral researchers having obtained their PhD less than 5 years beforehand.
Their research is required to have a potential application in the diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment of inflammatory cutaneous pathologies, in particular skin cancer.
The 16th annual meeting of the Foundation
As every year, SILAB organized a day dedicated to the Corporate Foundation on Thursday June 27, 2024.
It was a great opportunity to discover the research projects of the Foundation's two new laureates: Mélissa Chapeau and Rebeca González Guerrero, from the Mediterranean center of Molecular Medicine (C3M) in Nice, respectively entitled "Characterization of fibroblast reprogramming in the lymph node niche by cutaneous melanoma" and "Identifying and targeting the events responsible for altered immunogenicity in melanoma resistant to targeted therapies".
This 16th edition, orchestrated by Brigitte Closs-Gonthier, Director and Scientific Director of the Corporate Foundation, brought together members of the scientific council, the board of directors, former prizewinners and SILAB employees, to discuss the latest innovations in biomedical research.
She also gave the floor to Emilie Chessel and Anna Llebaria-Fabrias, 2023 and 2022 prizewinners respectively, who shared the scientific advances of their work.
The scientific event concluded with a cocktail reception, where prizewinners, Foundation members and SILAB staff enjoyed a convivial exchange of views.
“Young researcher” poster prize
Every year, the SILAB - Jean PAUFIQUE Corporate Foundation supports a young deserving group involved in the study of therapies of skin diseases by awarding a “Young researcher” poster prize at the Journées du Cancéropôle Grand Sud-Ouest (Greater Southwest cancer research days).
For the 19th edition, Marcelo Hurtado was selected for his poster entitled “Transcriptional regulatory networks unravel cell states from immune cell type deconvolution and uncovers cell niches predictive of cancer progression”.
This work was conducted in Toulouse at the Cancer Research Center.