Prix de l'Académie des sciences 2024: grant from the Fondation Simone et Cino del Duca
- Research
Published on May 20, 2025
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Updated on June 7, 2025
Dates
on the June 3, 2025
Every year, the Académie des Sciences awards nearly eighty prizes covering all fields of science, both fundamental and applied. Many of the prizewinners are CNRS researchers or are attached to a laboratory supervised by the CNRS.
Grants :
Cornelia Meinert of the Institut de Chimie de Nice (CNRS/Université Côte d'Azur) received the Simone and Cino del Duca Foundation Grant (€75,000).
Cornelia Meinert studies the origin of biological homochirality, i.e. the uniformity of molecular chirality observed in living organisms. Her research focuses on the hypothesis that this phenomenon may have been initiated by interstellar photochemical processes, long before the formation of our Solar System. By deciphering this mechanism, she hopes to shed light on how the molecules at the root of life may have been influenced by cosmic events, offering crucial insights into the origins of life itself.
Grants :
Cornelia Meinert of the Institut de Chimie de Nice (CNRS/Université Côte d'Azur) received the Simone and Cino del Duca Foundation Grant (€75,000).
Cornelia Meinert studies the origin of biological homochirality, i.e. the uniformity of molecular chirality observed in living organisms. Her research focuses on the hypothesis that this phenomenon may have been initiated by interstellar photochemical processes, long before the formation of our Solar System. By deciphering this mechanism, she hopes to shed light on how the molecules at the root of life may have been influenced by cosmic events, offering crucial insights into the origins of life itself.
