June 2022
Aurore Latragna and Alba Sabaté received the Best Chronic Pain Award (http://esraeurope.org/grant-awards/) at the Annual ESRA Congress for their paper “Prdm12 modulates pain-related behavior by remodeling gene expression in mature nociceptors” published in Pain.
January 2021
Our last work on Prdm12, demonstrating its requirement in the physiology of adult nociceptors, is reaching the press:
https://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_aie-ouille-une-equipe-de-l-ulb-et-de-l-umons-identifie-un-gene-actif-dans-la-douleur?id=10916267
March 2019
Our work on Prdm12 demonstrating that it is specific of the nociceptive lineage and that it is required for the development of nociceptors is accepted in Cell Reports (Desiderio et al, Cell Reports 26, 3522-3536, 2019). See also comments below this publication in Daily Sciences.
http://dailyscience.be/15/05/2019/une-proteine-qui-fait-mal/
December 2018
Eric received the the Julien and Nora Fautrez-Firlefijn prize from the Royal Academy of Science
https://actu.biopark.be/index.php?lang=en-US&p=newsDetail&id=53
February 2018
Eric received the Medisite Award from the Fondation de France
Fondation Medisite Press release
June 2017
Simon Desiderio received the annual Award of the Belgian Pain Society.