Ana Ferreiro received the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. Neurologist by training and holder of a thesis in molecular biology, Ana Ferreiro is head of the Fundamental and Translational Myology team at the Functional and Adaptive Biology Laboratory (BFA) of University of Paris / CNRS and has been working for twenty years on congenital myopathies. She is also a clinician at the Institute of Myology.
As a prizewinner, she will receive funding of 45,000 euros and is invited to conduct research projects in a research laboratory in Germany for a period of 6 months to one year.
> Read the complete interview with Ana Ferreiro on Université de Paris website