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Prof. Françoise M. Winnik, MANA Satellite Principle Investigator wins the Urgel Archambault prize in 2015

9 Nov, 2015

MANA Satellite Principle Investigator, Prof. Françoise M. Winnik, received the Urgel Archambault prize in 2015 for physics, mathematics, computer science and engineering from the Association Canadienne Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences (ACFAS), a non-profit organization contributing to the advancement of science in Quebec and the Canadian Francophony.

The prize, which is named after Urgel Archambault, founding director of the École Polytechnique de Montréal, was created in 1953, and is awarded every year to an outstanding researcher in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science or engineering. The award to Prof. Winnik is a tremendous validation of her ingenious work to combine fundamental and applied research in areas such as medical imaging, gene therapy and nanomedicine.



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