STORY – The researcher, whose team was on the brink of collapse in 2019, has just received a prestigious prize from the Institut de France.
Special envoy to Marseilles
When the Covid crisis broke out in early 2020, France was taken aback. And for good reason, only one laboratory is working specifically on these “crown” viruses that everyone now knows as coronaviruses: it is Bruno Canard’s Viral replicases: structure, mechanism and drug-design group. Administratively attached to the structural biology laboratory Architecture and function of biological macromolecules (AFMB) of the university campus of Luminy, in Marseille, the twenty researchers who compose it are crammed into too small offices located on the mezzanine of another building. belonging to the Polytech engineering school.
At the end of 2019, the small structure is barely surviving. “We only had one contract and were trapped because we could only work on this project,” remembers the scientist who now has enough contracts “to see coming over the next five years“. The Toulouse-born scientist…
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