Prof. Françoise Gisou van der Goot - Marcel Benoist Prize 2009
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Prof. Françoise Gisou van der Goot receives the 2009 Marcel Benoist Prize.
12.10.2009 Under the ordination of the Federal Councillor Pascal Couchepin, the board of trustees of the Marcel Benoist Foundation awarded the 2009 Marcel Benoist Prize, a sum of 100,000 Swiss francs, to Professor Françoise Gisou van der Goot, member of the Global Health Institute. The laureate has been recognized for her work in infectious diseases, notably in how bacterial toxins make their way through a cell and how the cell reacts to these toxins. Pascal Couchepin welcomed Gisou van der Goot in Bern on the 12th of October, 2009. This is the first time this prize has been awarded to a woman, as well as the first time EPFL has been undividedly awarded the prize.