We would like to thank all candidates for their interst in the Francophone Foundation for Diabetes Research – FFRD – through their response to its call for proposals on last 20 February .

For this eleventh year, the FFRD received a bit less than 20 application files.

After a very close review of the projects, evaluated first by 3 international experts, external to the FFRD, and then examined at the meeting of the scientific council of
 9th October:

6 candidates have been preselected for a face-to-face interview before the scientific council which will be held at the head offices of the FFRD in Paris, on November 13th 2023:

• Olivier BOURRON, Paris
• Mickaël CROYAL, Nantes
• Nassim DALI-YOUCEF, Strasbourg
• Sandrine LABLANCHE, Grenoble
• Luciano PIROLA, Lyon
• Soraya TALEB, Paris

Let the Francophone Foundation for Diabetes Research congratulate them for it!

As announced, the FFRD will be supporting 2 projects : 1 clinical research project and 1 basic research project.

The final decision of the scientific council will be known following the meeting of November 13th when the 2 recipients of the 2023 FFRD research grants will be selected.