Laura and Nour, two Lille scientists, get a prestigious price!

By Amandine Vachez published Lelille Actuit my news

It’s a great reward.The one who is the pride of their loved ones, and will allow their projects to continue.Laura and Nour, originally and residents of Lille (North), are part of the winners of the Young-Uréal-UNESCO Prize for women and science*, delivered on October 7, 2021.Portraits.

The price, in a few words

The youth Talents L'Oréal-Unesco Prize for women and science represents a good recognition for women rewarded.It will allow them to finance their research and a guarantee of support for their status as a woman in science.What encourage them to continue on this path.Rewarded for their emeritus journey and their brilliant work, they will receive a research scholarship (€ 15,000 for doctoral students and € 20,000 for post-doctorants) and will benefit from a leadership training program, complementary to their scientific journey.

Laura Monk, specialist in fundamental mathematics

Laura Monk, from Lille, is a doctoral student at the University of Strasbourg.She works on fundamental mathematics."I have always loved science, in general," she told us at the end of September, when she was just in Germany for a new professional adventure.

After a prep in Versailles, she joined ENS, École normale supérieure, by competition.Aggregation, then the thesis, and it becomes what it calls with humor a "baby researcher" (she has just finished her thesis).

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This award, Laura obtained it for her work in fundamental mathematics.Not easy to explain what it is in common."It is not necessarily directly implemented.We imagine new problems, new questions.Laura works on random hyperbolic surfaces, which are examples of chaotic systems, such as weather: chaos theory makes it possible to describe complex systems where the smallest variation in initial conditions can completely change the final result.

In short, "a lot of calculations, and a little geometry.These are very old questions, dating from the 70s and 80s, for which we needed new ideas, ”explains the researcher.It proposes to respond by the random, by adding probabilities.

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Laura will be able, thanks to the scholarship of € 15,000 (for doctoral students) of the price, benefit from a boost in her career."It's a decisive moment, I have to be proof!The young woman, who will work a year in an international building in Bonn, imagine traveling for several years: multiplying experiences, meeting people for, she hopes, find a fixed position.

Nour, passionate about neuroscience and reproduction

Nour El Houda Mimouni is post-doctorating in Lille.It seeks to develop early diagnostic tools and effective therapeutic tracks to improve the management of patients with polycystic ovary syndrome, hormonal disruption whose origin can be ovaries or/and brain.

She insists from the first moments of our interview: "I was rewarded, but it was above all a team job!"She refers to those around her in the" Development and plasticity of the Neuroendocrine Inserm UMRS U1172 neuroendocrine brain ", led by Dr. Vincent Prévot and located at the Lille Neuroscience and Cognition Research Center of the Lille University Hospital.

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After studying between Paris and Algiers, Nour came to Lille for his thesis.A decision taken following his meeting with Professor Paolo Giabobini, who had the idea of working on this syndrome."He had already advanced well on the project, obtained European funding before I arrived."This project, which aims to improve the management of infertility and give a glimmer of hope to the couples unable to design a child, immediately packed the young woman, passionate about neuroscience and reproduction."It brought together everything I loved".

For the past five years, in the lab, they have been working on "a syndrome that is too little known", summarizes the researcher, who wants to raise awareness."It affects one in 10 women.This is the leading cause of infertility in the world ".However, very little research has been done on the subject.One of the difficulties is that the symptoms can be very variable and, in most cases, too low to alert.

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The Young Talent Prize has rewarded a work highlighting the transmission of mother's to the daughter's syndrome."We have managed to identify a few markers that can serve as a diagnosis," says Nour, happy to work in a close connection with medical teams."This is called translational research.Our team is the first in the world to do clinical trials, ”said Nour.Clinical data and laboratory tests respond.A process that makes it possible to effectively advance research.

This price, for Nour-which will obtain a scholarship of € 20,000 (intended for post-doctorants)-is "a great honor, of course!This is an opportunity to show what women do in the world of science, it is important to me.What Nour imagines, later is to deliver "diagnostic kits" for this syndrome.But she tempers: the path is still long.

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