Ana Ferreiro is the winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize

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