Winners

Winners

Title: Modeling the role of heterogeneity in the transmission of infectious diseases

Model: Constanze CIAVARELLA

Joint Research Unit: PCCEI

Title: Combining a vagina-on-a-chip model and clinical investigation to evaluate the effect of chemicals from menstrual protection products on the vaginal environment.

Proposed by: Nicolas TESSANDIER

Joint Research Unit: MIVEGEC

Winners

Title: Biological invasions, climate change, and trematodiasis in Occitania: a vector-centered One Health approach for assessing risks and interventions on snail-borne zoonosis (InvaSnails).

Bearer: Ania ALBA MENENDEZ

Source: Local (IHPE Perpignan)

Joint Research Unit: IHPE

Title: Exploring host-pathogen interactions to propose novel drug targets.

Presenter: Thomas OTTO

Source: University of Glasgow

UMR: LPHI

Theme

As it does every year, the AAPR focuses on a priority theme selected collectively by the Institute’s three councils. For 2025, this theme was: “Anticipating exposomic health risks.”

Winning Standard Projects

Title: Impact of the external and internal exposome on pregnancy and maternal-fetal complications in women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)

Acronym: FAMEXP

Project Leader: Yves-Marie PERS

Joint Research Unit: FHU REGENHAB 2 IRMB

Title: Is exposure to pollutants during pregnancy a risk factor for birth defects?

Acronym: POLLU-DEFECT

Project leader: Benoît TESSIER

Joint Research Unit: IDESP

Title: Unraveling and Modeling the Worsening of ASD Symptoms Following In Utero Exposure to Environmental Pollutant Residues

Acronym: UnMUtE

Project Leader: Karine LOULIER

Joint Research Unit: INM

Title: Workflow for Antibody-Based Analysis and Prediction of Virulence and Emergence

Acronym: Wa3ve

Project leader: Antoine GROSS

Joint Research Unit : IRIM

Title: The Impact of Reservoir Depletion on Plasmodium falciparum Genetic Diversity

Acronym: IMPACT-Gen

Project Leader Project Leader: Antoine CLAESSENS

UMR: LPHI

Title: Exposure to emerging algal toxins, with a focus on ciguatoxins in vulnerable marine ecosystems around the world: threats to human health, diversity and ecology of benthic toxic species, and risk assessment.

Acronym: EXALTOX

Project Leader: Alain LACAMPAGNE

Joint Research Unit: PHYMEDEXP

Title: Antimicrobial Resistance and Street Drugs in Central Africa: A One-Health Approach

Acronym: RAMAC-One

Project Leader: Jérémy CAMPILLO

UMR: TRANSVIHMI

Winners of Exploratory Projects

Title: Exposure to air pollution and the risk of preeclampsia during pregnancy: a six-year study in France (2018–2023)

Project acronym: PExAR

Project Leader: Sylvie BOUVIER

Joint Research Unit: IDESP

Title: Exposure to PFAS and Colorectal Cancer Metastasis

Acronym: COLOPIFAS

Project Leader: Audrey CASTET-NICOLAS

UMR: IRCM

Title: Evaluation of the Effects of Environmental Pollutants (EPs) and Air Samples on the Pregnane X Receptor (PXR)-Mediated Mitogenic Activity of Colorectal and Hepatic Cancer Cells

Project leader: Philippe POURQUIER

UMR: IRCM

Title: An exposome-driven approach to sustainable aquaculture: Addressing environmental pollution and health risks in West Africa.

Project leader: Jean-Christophe AVARRE

Joint Research Unit: ISEM

Title: Exposure to Arboviruses in Urban Areas

Acronym: Urban-EXAM

Project leader: Rodolphe HAMEL

Joint Research Unit: MIVEGEC

Title: Genetic diversity, resistance, virulence, and inflammation of Cryptococcus strains isolated from the environment

Project acronym: CryptENVI

Project leaders: Sébastien BERTOUT, Virginie BELLET, Pascal DRAKULOVSKI

UMR: TRANSVIHMI

Theme

As it does every year, the AAPR focuses on a priority theme selected collectively by the Institute’s three councils. For 2024, this theme was: “The Exposome & Major Societal Challenges.”

Winning Standard Projects

Title: Animal Contribution to Schistosomiasis Transmission

Acronym: ACTS  

Project Leader: Richard GALINIER

Joint Research Unit: IHPE

Title: Environmental Quality, Social Inequality, and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Toward a Better Understanding of Socio-Environmental Inequalities During the Perinatal Period in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Acronym: AEISTSA  

Project Leader: Amaria BAGHDADLI

UMR: FHU Neur-Expo  

Title: Exploration of innovative approaches for ARBovirus detection in the Occitanie region.

Acronym: ARrbOCC  

Project Leader: Yannick SIMONIN

Joint Research Unit: PCCEI  

Title: Environmental Anomaly Detection and Health Impacts: Addressing PFAS Risks  

Acronym: EAD  

Project Leader: Pascal NEVEU

Joint Research Unit: MISTEA  

Title: The Exposome and Gut Flora as Risk Factors for Rheumatoid Arthritis   

Acronym: ExpLoRA

Project Leader: Claire DAIEN

UMR: PhyMedExp  

Title: The Last Sip of the Mosquitoes in a Garden: Designing and Testing a Low-Tech Device

Acronym: MBUSTANI  

Project Leader: Christophe BOETE

Joint Research Unit: ISEM  

Title: Pathogen Exposure from Aquifers: An Interdisciplinary Health Case Study in Cambodia

Acronym:PEACH  

Project Leader: Sylvain MASSUEL

Joint Research Unit: G-Eau  

Title: Pesticides, Replication Stress, and Cancer

Acronym: PeRSee  

Project Leader: Jérôme POLI 

UMR: IGH

Title: Rotavirus, Environmental Heterogeneity, and Zoonotic Exposure: Implications for Human Health  

Acronym: ROTEXPO

Project Leader: Stéphanie JACQUET

Joint Research Unit: MIVEGEC  

Title: Health and Food Security Risks Associated with Marine Aquaculture Practices and Their Influence on the Circulation of Antibiotic-Resistant Microorganisms and Pathogens in Floating Farm Socio-Ecosystems

Acronym: THREATS

Project Leader: Gwen PULLIAT

Joint Research Unit: ARTDev  

Winners of Exploratory Projects

Title: Aquaculture-Based Approaches for Schistosome Biocontrol in Madagascar  

Acronym: AquaBiocontrol  

Project Leader: Paula SENFF

Joint Research Unit: ISEM  

Project title: Assessing exposome factors in aquatic environments for antimicrobial (AMR) dissemination

Acronym: AquaAMR  

Project Leader: Julia MOUGIN 

Joint Research Unit: IHPE

Title: Blood levels of environmental pollutants following exercise in different air quality conditions: a field study  

Acronym: BLOODPOL  

Project Leader: François FAVIER

UMR: Euromov

Title: Metagenomics: A Closer Look at Early-Life Exposure to Viruses

Acronym: ExpoViro  

Project Leader: Ilka ENGLEMANN

Joint Research Unit: PCCEI  

Title: Prolonged exposure to noise or combined exposure to noise and pollutants during pregnancy and hearing disorders in children

Acronym: NoiseHear

Project Leader: Jin WANG

Joint Research Unit: INM

Theme

As is the case every year, the call for research proposals (AAP-R) focuses on a priority theme selected collectively by the Institute’s three governing bodies: the Executive Committee (CoDir), the Research Steering and Evaluation Committee (COER), and the Scientific and Strategic Steering Committee (COSS). For this first year, in 2023, the theme was: “Emerging Exposome.”

Winning Projects

Title: Rapid landscape changes and their impact on vectors and zoonotic pathogens in wildlife, humans, and domestic animals in the megadiverse Pantanal and Cerrado biomes of Brazil

Acronym: ZAMBA

Project Leader: Julio BENAVIDES

Joint Research Unit: MIVEGEC

Title: Rodent-Borne Diseases and Pesticide Use in Southeast Asia

Acronym: ROBOPUSA

Project Leader: Julien CLAUDE

Joint Research Unit: ISE-M

Title: Rodent Control in the City: Health, Ecology, and (Re)exposure to Rodent-Borne Infectious Agents and Vectors

Acronym: RoCoCity

Project leader: Gauthier DOBIGNY

Joint Research Unit: CBGP

Title: Focus on Persistent, Mobile, and Toxic Chemicals as Substances of Very High Concern: An Emerging Exposome from Surface and Drinking Waters to Humans

Acronym: PMTfocus

Project Leader: Elena GOMEZ

UMR: HSM

Title: Towards a Better Understanding of the Emerging Chemical Exposome: Illuminating the Interplay Between Different Classes of Xenobiotics and the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor-Dependent Signaling Pathway

Acronym: EXPOSAHR

Project leader: Jakub GRUSZCZYK

Joint Research Unit: CBS

Title: The Rise of Emerging Antibiotic Resistance in Public Health-
s in Aquatic Environments: Toward a Genomic,
Phenotypic, and Evolutionary-Based Proxy for Exposure Risk in
a Given Area

Acronym: WATERISK

Project Leader: Estelle JUMAS-BILAK

UMR: HSM

Title: Human exposure to bird-associated blood-feeding mites: ultimate and proximate causes of an emerging contrast between urban and rural environments

Acronym: EXPOMITE

Project Leader: Lise ROY

UMR: CEFE

Winners

Title: CartoMoustique : A tiger mosquito forecast for prevention and decision support in Occitanie.
Supporting the co-development of the One Health public policy initiative – An analysis of the Geographic Data Infrastructure intermediation tool.

Project Leader: Paul TACONET

Joint Research Unit: MIVEGEC

Title: “ONE HEALTH” Exhibition Project for the General Public.

Project Leader: Rodolphe HAMEL

Joint Research Unit: MIVEGEC

Title: Undisciplined Ethnobotany: Society for Ethnobotany Annual Congress 2026.

Project Leader: Julien ANTIH

UMR: QualiSud

Title: Women's Health Through the Ages.

Project Leader: Arnaud TOGNETTI

UMR: CEE-M

Title: Waterfall – Castries Cadoule. 

Project Leader: Jennifer PRADEL

Joint Research Unit: IEM

Winners

Title: The Heart of the School. (Screenings of the sociological documentary based on ACTER research).

Project Leader: Laurent VISIER

Joint Research Unit: CEPEL

Title: Effects of changes in the urban exposome: what the COVID-19 health crisis teaches us about designing the city of tomorrow.

Project Leader: Emmanuelle CHEYNS

UMR: MoISA

Title: CULEX: Utopian Convergences of Emotional and Experimental Languages.

Project Leader: Claire LOISEAU

Joint Research Unit: MIVEGEC

Title: To Your Environmental Health! Science and Community Festival.

Project Leader: Christelle GRAMAGLIA

Joint Research Unit: G-EAU

Title: How water is treated: learn everything you need to know in a fun way with a "serious game" about water purification and sanitation. 

Project Leader: Julie MENDRET

Joint Research Unit: IEM

Title: We, the River.

Project sponsor: Bipolar Production Association

Joint Research Unit: G-EAU CEFE

Title: “Immersive video on the role of water in the exposome”

Project Leader: Corinne CASIOT

UMR: HSM

Title: EMOTEP : podcast series on the history and practices of ethnomedicine in Occitania 

Project Leader: Julien ANTIH

UMR: Qualisud 

Title: ZAMBA : Preventing Zoonoses Through Music in Brazil.

Project Leader: Julio BENAVIDES

Joint Research Unit: MIVEGEC

Winners

Title: Vaccination at the Intersection of Health, the Humanities and Social Sciences, and Evolutionary Biology

Acronym: VAXINTER

Project Leader: Sylvain GANDON

UMR: CEFE

Title: Infectious Risks in Urban Areas: Health Ecology Applied to Interactions Between Nutrias and Humans.

Acronym: RIVIERE

Project Leader: Olivier GIMENEZ

UMR: CEFE

Winners

Title: Citizen Engagement and Exposure to Tick-Borne Risks in Occitanie

Acronym : MobiTiques

Organizers and partners: Association Le Graine, Gilles Sarter, and Mariline Poupaud 

Title: Aude Institute for Environmental Health and Eco-Citizenship

Acronym : IECSEA

Organizers and partners: Christelle Gramaglia and Viviane Thivent

Winners

Title: The Impact of Non-Coding RNAs from Flaviviruses on Inflammation.

Acronym: ANCFI

Project Leader: Jim ZOLADEK

UMR: IRIM

Title: Deciphering Plasmodium falciparum Cryptotypes: Genotyping, Phenotyping, and Long-read Sequencing.

Acronym : CRYPTO-X

Project leader: Balotin FOGANG

UMR: LPHI

Title: Island Traditions and Metabolic Syndrome: Plant Archives vs. Local Knowledge in Réunion.

Acronym: TISAN-R

Project Leader: Julien ANTIH

UMR: QualiSud

Title: NewEnvMed

Acronym: NewEnvMed

Project Leader: Jérémy ROLLIN

Joint Research Unit: CEPEL

Title: Prediction of the Allergenicity of Lipid Transfer Proteins (LTPs) from Novel Plant Protein Sources

Acronym: PredAller

Project Leader: Moïse MICHEL

Joint Research Unit: IDESP

Title: Study of the Impact of Menstrual Products on Biofilm Formation by the Vaginal Microbiota, BioVag

Acronym: BioVag

Project Leader: Anaïs BLACHE

Joint Research Unit: MIVEGEC

Title: Geospatial and AI-Driven Modeling of the Risk of Rabies Transmission from Animals to Humans.

Acronym: GeoRabIA

Project Leader: Sara MOBSITE

UMR: ESPACE-DEV

Title: Viral Exposure Through Environmental Matrices and Human Practices

Acronym: VIREMH

Project Leader: Matthieu FRITZ

UMR: TransVIHMI

Winners

Title: Nexus: e-Cohort of French Mayors: External Exposome, Health, and Entrepreneurial Vitality

Acronym: ECO-MAIRE

Project Leader: Olivier TORRES

UMR: MRM

Nexus Title: Emotional Sensitivities and Nutrition: Behaviors and Decisions

Acronym : SENS-ALIM

Project Leader: Marie-Christine LICHTLÉ

UMR: MRM

Title: Nexus: The Microbial EXposome and Persistent Infections: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Interplay Between Opportunistic Bacterial Pathogens and the Host Innate Immune System.

Acronym: EXPERT

Project Leader: Anne BLANC-POTARD

UMR: LPHI

Title: Nexus: Nutrition as a New Therapeutic Tool for Improving the Treatment of Malignant Hematologic Diseases Using CAR-T Cells

Acronym: Nutri-CART

Project Leader: Valérie ZIMMERMANN

UMR: IGMM

Nexus Title: Modulation of environmental and intrinsic determinants of physical frailty in patients with chronic kidney disease. A holistic health approach.

Acronym: KIDIHEALTH

Project Leader: Robin CANDAU

UMR: PhyMedExp

Winners

Nexus Title: Integrated approach to persistent, mobile, and toxic pollutants in water resources: assessment of their contribution to the EXPOsome, recommendation of adaptation solutions

Acronym: EXPO-PMT

Project Leader: Catherine FAUR

Joint Research Unit: IEM

Nexus Title: Exploring Microbe-Induced Amyloidoses through an Interdisciplinary Approach

Acronym : AMYLOPATH

Project Leader: Andrey KAJAVA

Joint Research Unit: CRBM

Nexus Title: Experienced or Anticipated Climate Change and Mental Health: From Anxiety to Adaptive Well-Being

Acronym: CLIMAnX

Project Leader: Marie-Laure PARMENTIER

Joint Research Unit: IGF

Title Nexus: Leptospires and Exposure Nexus: interactions between humans, dogs, nutria, and the environment

Acronym: LEPTONEX

Project Leader: Nathalie CHARBONNEL

Joint Research Unit: CBGP

Nexus Title: Interoception, Exposome, Gut Microbiota, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Artificial Intelligence & Ontological Linking

Acronym: INTEGRAAL

Project Leader: Claire IMMEDIATO DAIEN

UMR: PhyMedExp

Winners

Nexus Title: Epidemiology and evolution of infectious diseases in age-structured populations

Acronym: EMIPSA

Project Leader: Sébastien LION

UMR: CEFE

Nexus Title: Society & social environment in the face of suicidal behavior

Acronym: SECS

Project Leader: Philippe COURTET

Joint Research Unit: IGF

Nexus Title: A global characterization of PFAS activity and elimination in drinking water

Acronym: PYPHAS

Project Leader: Julie MENDRET

Joint Research Unit: IEM

Nexus Title: Development of an advanced airway-on-a-chip model to study the effects of a cocktail of pollutants and respiratory viruses on lung tissue

Acronym: COCKTAIL

Project leader: John DE VOS

Joint Research Unit: IRMB

Nexus title: Development of innovative sensors for measuring exposure to pollutants in air to unravel cardiorespiratory effects.

Acronym: EXPAIR

Project Leader: Aurore Vicet

Joint Research Unit: IES

Winners

Nexus title: Air pollution and pulmonary emphysema impact hemodynamic cardiovascular properties. POLLHEART

Acronym: POLLHEART

Project Leader: Bourdin ARNAUD

UMR: PhyMedExp

Nexus Title: Exploring the chemical exposome’s impact on amyloid assembly

Acronym: TEDxPUM

Project Leader: Herve COTTET

UMR: IBMM

Nexus title: External exposome in a polluted environment related to extractive industry: different modeling strategies

Acronym: MATRIX2

Project Leader: Emmanuelle CADOT

UMR: HSM

Nexus title: Impact of Anthropization on the Risk of Emergence of Zoonotic Arboviruses in Central Africa. Acronym (I-CARE)

Acronym: I-CARE

Project Leader: Christophe PAUPY

Joint Research Unit: MIVEGEC

Nexus Title: ExpoZone FE

Acronym: EZFE

Project Leader: Laurent VISIER

Joint Research Unit: CEPEL