2025
The Pierre Süe Prize of the French Chemical Society was awarded to Anne Imberty for her internationally recognized work.
2024
The Hayashi Jisuke Memorial Award of the Cellulose Society of Japan was awarded to Yu Ogawa for his research on the structure and properties of normal-sized crystalline polysaccharides.
The Cellulose Society Award of the Cellulose Society of Japan was awarded to Yoshiharu Nishiyama for his contribution to elucidating the formation and mechanical properties of higher-order cellulose structures and the molecular characteristics that govern them.
Alain Rivet received the CNRS Collective Crystal Award for his participation in the implementation of electronic laboratory notebooks at the CNRS.
The prize for best oral presentation at the 2024 European Polymer Science Days (JEP0 2024) was awarded by the French Group for Polymer Studies and Applications (GFE) to Claire Ren, a doctoral student at Cermav.
2022
The title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Grenoble Alpes is awarded to Professor Weng-Chang Chen, Professor of Chemical Engineering at National Taiwan University and collaborator at Cermav.
The eleventh Erwin Felix Lewy Bertaut Prize of the European Crystallography Association (ECA) and the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA) is awarded to Lukáš Gajdos in recognition of his exceptional research on the characterization of the interaction of lectins with sugars by neutron diffraction and all the experimental difficulties he overcame to obtain these results.
The Cosmetic Victories Academic Prize is awarded to Sami Halila for his Carbogels project, which focuses on a new class of organogel with tunable rheological properties for cosmetics and dermopharmaceuticals.
2021
The Anselme Payen Prize was awarded to Yoshiharu Nishiyama for his work on solid cellulosic states, focusing on three areas: the use of scattering methods (X-rays, electrons, and neutrons) and spectroscopy (NMR, infrared) to better understand the structure of cellulosic acid and other crystalline polysaccharides (amylose, chitin, chitosan, etc.), the study of the properties of cellulose suspensions, and the modeling of the physical properties of cellulose.
2020
Two young PhDs from Cermav were winners of the I-PhD National Innovation Competition and recognized by Minister Frédérique Vidal: Emeline Richard-Millot (Grand Prize) and Julien Leguy.
The Franco-Spanish International Prize “Miguel Catalán – Paul Sabatier” was awarded to Anne Imberty for her contribution to structural glycobiochemistry and for advancing our understanding of the interaction between proteins and carbohydrates, with applications in the design of anti-infective compounds.
The prestigious 2020 International Prize of the Japanese Polymer Science Society was awarded to Redouane Borsali for his major contribution to the self-assembly of sequenced carbohydrate-based copolymer systems: nanoparticles, thin films, smart surfaces, and devices.
2018
The Franco-Taiwanese Prize, awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (MOST) and the French Academy of Sciences, recognizes and encourages a Franco-Taiwanese scientific partnership for its scientific contribution in a field of interest to both countries. It is jointly awarded to Redouane Borsali, CNRS Research Director, and Wen-Chang Chen, Distinguished Professor at National Taiwan University, for their research on transistor-based memory devices, through the design of nanostructured films based on bio-sourced copolymers.
2017
The “Stars of Europe” Award for Research and Innovation is awarded by the Ministry of National Education and Research to Redouane Borsali for coordinating the European project “Greenanofilms.” This project has made groundbreaking contributions to the design and development of a new class of carbohydrate-based block copolymers and their self-assembly into thin films at a scale of less than 10 nm for microelectronic applications, as well as new glyconanoparticles (with mosaic shapes and sizes) for various applications (cosmetics, biomedicine, etc.).
2015
The 2015 Marcus Wallenberg Prize was awarded to Yoshiharu Nishiyama, Akira Isogai, and Tsuguyuki Saito for their revolutionary design of an energy-efficient process for producing nanofibrillated cellulose.
2013
The CNRS Institute of Chemistry Silver Medal was awarded to Dr. Anne Imberty for her significant contribution to the field of molecular glycobiology.
The 2013 BNP Paribas Foundation Prize for Scientific Innovation was awarded to Professor Rachel Auzély for her research on brain tissue regeneration using hydrogels and neural stem cells.
2012
Dr. Yoshiharu Nishiyama received the 2012 Hayashi Jisuke Award from the Cellulose Society of Japan for his work on elucidating the crystal structures of native cellulose allomorphs.
2011
Dr. Anne Imberty, Research Director, was awarded the 2011 Charles Dhéré Prize by the French Academy of Sciences for her work on analyzing sugar-protein interactions in biology, paving the way for applications in the biomedical field.
2008
Dr. Sébastien Fort, Research Fellow, received the French Carbohydrate Group Prize from the French Societies of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
At the 58th Meeting of the Japan Wood Research Society, held from March 17 to 19, 2008, in Tsukuba, Japan, Dr. Yoshiharu Nishiyama, Research Fellow at Cermav, was awarded the 2007 Japan Wood Research Society Prize for his work on determining the hydrogen bonding system in native cellulose using diffraction methods.
2006
The Alceru Prize, in the “Lifework” category, was awarded to Dr. Henri Chanzy, former Research Director at Cermav.
2005
Dr. Eric Samain, Research Engineer, received the CNRS Crystal Award.
J.S. Condoret, S. Camy, J.L. Labat, D. Samain, S. Montanari, and M. Vignon received the 2nd prize at the 25th Midi-Pyrénées Innovation Competition.
Franck Chevalier, PhD from Cermav, received the Thesis Prize from the Molecular Modeling and Graphics Group.
2004
Dr. Anne Imberty, Research Director, received the Roy L. Whistler Carbohydrate Award from the International Carbohydrate Organization for her internationally recognized work in the field of glycochemistry and structural glycobiology.
2003
Dr. Laurent Heux: CNRS Bronze Medal
2002
Prof. Rachel Auzély: Prize from the French Carbohydrate Group of the French Societies of Chemistry and Biochemistry
1998
Prof. Sylvain Cottaz: French Carbohydrate Group Prize of the French Societies of Chemistry and Biochemistry
1991
Dr. Henri Chanzy: Anselme Payen Prize, American Chemical Society, Cellulose Division
1988
Dr. Bernard Henrissat: CNRS Bronze Medal
1986
Dr. Bernard Henrissat: French Carbohydrate Group Prize
1981
Dr. Henri Chanzy: CNRS Silver Medal
1980
Prof. Fernand Barnoud: Foulon Prize of the French Academy of Sciences, for his work on plant tissue culture, the structure of plant membranes, and cell wall organization at the supramolecular level.
1978
Dr. François René Taravel: CNRS Bronze Medal
1975
Dr. Henri Chanzy: French Polymer Group Prize