Laureates

Isabel Beets

The second “Baillet Latour Biomedical Award” was awarded to Professor Isabel BEETS of KULeuven for her research on the mechanisms of learning and memorization of the brain, and particularly to conduct the following research project:  “Decoding the Neuromodulatory Regulation of Learning and Forgetting”.

Affiliation at the time of the Award: Isabel Beets is Research Professor at the Biology Department of KULeuven and associated with the Leuven Brain Institute. Since 2018, she is heading her own research group at KU Leuven that studies the molecular basis of brain plasticity.

Thomas Marichal

The first “Baillet Latour Biomedical Award” was awarded to Professor Thomas Marichal of ULiège for his research on the pulmonary immune system, and particularly to conduct the following research project: “Atypical myeloid cells emerging during the recovery phase of respiratory viral infections: origin, identity, functions and regulation by tissue cues, host risk factors and chronic stress”.

Affiliation at the time of the Award: Thomas Marichal is Research Professor at Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Biomedical Sciences (GIGA) at the University of Liège, where he heads the Immunophysiology Laboratory. He was also appointed Associate Professor of Physiology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Liege since 2019.