2023-06-26 16:00:00
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INTERVIEW. Winners of the 2023 “Point” inventors’ list, Fatiha Nothias-Chahir and Sylvia Soares have developed a biomaterial to repair the spinal cord of paralyzed people.
By Héloïse Pons Fatiha Nothias (left) and Sylvia Soares (right), neuroscience researchers and co-founders of the start-up Medjeduse, which seeks to repair spinal cord injuries. © Iannis G./REA FOR “LE POINT” Published on 06/26/2023 at 6:00 p.m.
This is the story of an encounter between a neuroscientist and a student looking for a thesis director. Since 1992, Fatiha Nothias-Chahir, research director at the CNRS, has been looking for ways to allow the body to recover its functions following an accident that affects the nervous system and causes paralysis.
It is at the Alfred-Fessard Institute, in Gif-sur-Yvette, that the one who has just celebrated her 30-year career at the CNRS met Sylvia Soares, now professor of neurosciences at Sorbonne University. They note that, if the rehabilitation improves the life of the patients, nothing is proposed clinically to repair the lesion of the spinal cord.
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