Anne Robert awarded the Labbé Prize by the French Academy of Sciences

Anne Robert, CNRS Research Director at the LCC.

Anne Robert is interested in chemotherapy for diseases in which biological metals, iron and copper, play a decisive role. She has developed a specific copper chelator that is a candidate drug active in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease and Wilson’s disease. Recently, she synthesized a molecule effective against malaria resistant to current drugs.

The Doctor Henri Labbé and Madame Henri Labbé Prize, awarded by the Labbé Foundation of the French Academy of Sciences, is an annual prize (€4,000) created in 1948 for the field of biological chemistry and nutrition.

The formal award ceremony of the French Academy of Sciences took place on Tuesday, October 28, under the dome of the Institut de France in Paris.