Awards & Recognition

Prof. Hilal A. Lashuel – Lab Director


Best poster Award in the CIME research day (2019)
 Nadine Aït Bouziad – Research Fellow

2018 Kuwait Prize in Fundamental Sciences (Biological Sciences)

Professor Hilal Lashuel at EPFL has been awarded the 2018 Kuwait Prize in Fundamental Sciences (Biological Sciences).


Best BMI thesis Award (2018)
 Nadine Aït Bouziad – Research Fellow

Best presentation  (BMI day 2018 and EPFL PhD students retreat 2018)

 Anass Chiki – PhD Candidate


Best poster Award in the CIME research day (2018)

ERC Starting Grant

AUGUST 2009

Prof. Hilal Lashuel and his group, at the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Neuroproteomics at the Brain Mind Institute of the School of Life Sciences, have been awarded an ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant ; The 1.5 Million Euro grant is for five years and will support research by Prof. Lashuel and his team aimed at developing novel tools for real time monitoring and quantification of protein aggregation in Parkinson’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders. This funding scheme targets promising researchers who have the proven potential of becoming independent research leaders.
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Michael J. Fox Foundation AWARD 2009
July 2009
Two BMI investigators, Prof. Hilal A. Lashuel and Prof. Patrick Aebischer, have been awarded a research grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation to validate the novel targets for treating Parkinson’s disease.
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HFSP AWARD 2009
March 2009
Two BMI professors have been awarded Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) grants. Prof. Hilal Lashuel and Prof. Carl Petersen are the PIs of a young investigator and program grant respectively. List of 2009 Research Grant Awards


Three members of LMNN were awarded Marie Curie Post-doctoral Fellowship in 2008-2009

2009-2011
Diana Olschewski

Research Fellow

PhD. in Chemistry, University of Dortmund, 2008

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2009-2011
Abid Oueslati

Research Fellow

PhD. in Neuroscience, University of the Mediterranean (2008)

M. Sc. in Neuroscience

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 2008-2010
Valerie Grimminger

Research Fellow

Dr. rer. nat., Munich Institute of Technology, 2007

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HEBDO

Prof. Lashuel was Featured by the Swiss business magazine L’Hebdo among the 2009 “100 outstanding personalities” in the French speaking part of Switzerland” (Forum des 100). The list includes personalities of all horizons that, by their action or their vision, contribute to the dynamism and to the innovation in french-speaking Switzerland. pdf link

BEST UNDERGRADUATE POSTER PRESENTATION-2009

Razan Sheta

Ms. Razan Sheta, a former Summer Research Scholar at the LMNN, received the best poster presentation award at Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC)held in the University of British Columbia. Razan’s award was in recognition of her research work performed at the LMNN under the supervision of Prof. Hilal Lashuel and Dr. Katerina Paleologou entitled “Investigating the Sub-Cellular Localization of α-Synuclein”.

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BEST POSTER AWARD – 2009

Katerina Paleologou

Dr. Katerina Paleologou wins the Best Poster Award at the International Bunsen Discussion meeting on structure and mechanisms of amyloid formation in Halle, Germany, Feb 8-11, 2009.

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