Awarded Programs

Awarded Programs

2025

Innovation Category

Reward and promote innovative research tools and/or revolutionary discoveries.

Find out more about the “NEURON AS A SENSOR” project

NETRI startup website, Digitising human biology with organs-on-a-chip combined with AI.

Development and Applicability category

Seeking to enhance the integration of existing data and tools that can be applied to regulatory assessment in toxicology and/or human health.

 

Find out more about the “PDAC-ON-A-CHIP” project

Nanomaterials and Health team website, Institut Jean Lamour, Université de Lorraine, CNRS

 

Jury Prize category : Forward-looking project

Aimed at encouraging promising research and/or a team in terms of the quality, originality and exceptional ambition of its work.

Find out more about the “OBFAT-3D” project

ExAdEx-Innov start-up website, Shaping the future of in vitro research.

2023

For its 10 years, the ETHICSCIENCE Prize becomes the DESCROIX-VERNIER ETHICSCIENCE Prize and now rewards 3 projects in 3 distinct categories with a total endowment of 110 000 eur.

 

Category : INNOVATION

(New concepts and technology transfer)

Learn more about 3D Glimpse — a Tumor-on-chip to fight glioblastoma

Dr Agathe FIGAROL – FEMTO ST – University of Franche-Comté

 

Category : DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICABILITY

(Practical / Applied research)

Learn more about the ex-vivo technology

Dr Julien MARIE and Sophie LEON – Cancer Research Center of Lyon

 

Category : JURY PRIZE

(Encourages from the selection committee)

Learn more about NEXPOCAN

Dr Nicolas AZNAR – Cancer Research Center of Lyon

 

2019 — 2020

Dr Christophe Furger — AOP 

Bruno Brisson — Poietis

 

2017 — 2018

Prof Jens Schwamborn — Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine / University of Luxembourg

 

2015 — 2016

Dr Saadia Berrada — Atoxigen

 

In 2015, EthicScience helped Oncothies and Epithelix with the purchase of a 3D printer for mini-lung modeling to test the effects of electronic cigarettes.

 

2013 — 2014

Dr Christophe Mas — Oncotheis

Dr Samuel Constant — Epithelix