Published on October 23 2024

Many congratulations to Raphaëlle Métras, who has received a Simone and Cino Del Duca Prize, awarded by Académie des Sciences

Raphaëlle Métras from the SUMO team, has been awarded a prize from the Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation, attributed to young team leaders by a jury from Académie des Sciences, and allowing to support further her research on modelling zoonotic diseases transmission.

Raphaëlle Métras recevant son prix

Fondation Simone and Cino Del Duca Grant Prize

This grant will allow investigating and quantifying contacts at the animal-human interface and assess their implication in zoonotic pathogens’ transmission. We will aim at:

  • characterizing animal species being in direct contact with humans, in the general population,
  • characterizing the type of direct contacts and estimate their frequency,
  • identifying subgroups of the population at higher risk of exposure useful to conduct further studies.