Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil

Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil ‘s scientific career has been built on the use of multidisciplinary approaches to understand, at different scales, the functioning of cells in the immune system. In 2008, she set up a consortium including cell biologist M. Piel (I. Curie) and theoretical physicist R. Voituriez (UPMC, Paris). Their goal was to apply quantitative imaging and microfluidics to the study of molecular mechanisms and physical principles governing the ability of cells of the immune system to move. Their work has opened up a still unexplored line of research into the mechanisms that allow dendritic cells, the sentinels of immunity, to coordinate their function (s) with their migration in time and space. They have given rise to multiple publications, some of which in very prestigious journals such as Science, Cell, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Physics, Developmental Cell, etc. and the obtaining of several funding, including three projects awarded by the "European Research Council” (Starting, Advanced and Synergy).

Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil has obtained several awards, including the Thesis Award of the “French Association for Therapeutic Research” (1998), the Olga Sain Award of the “League against Cancer” (2009), the Gaston Rousseau Award from the Académie des Sciences (2012), the INSERM Research Award (2018) and the Grand Prix Charles Defforey from the Institut de France (2020). She was elected member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) in 2018.

Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil became the director of the "Immunity & Cancer" department of Institut Curie in April 2021.