A new ERC funding "Advanced Grants" awarded for a second time to Bernard MALISSEN, DR CNRS, head of the team "Genetic dissection of the function of T cells and dendritic cells" at the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy.
For the project entitled: Basilic Project. To use innovative approaches of integrative biology to unravel how lymphocytes process an array of molecular signals arising from contact with dendritic cells, thereby better understanding the mechanisms that underlie immunity and how they are altered in disease states.

Eric VIVIER, receives the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Liège. This honorary title allows a university to highlight the work of a personality who has made his mark in a particular field, also offering visibility to the university. Eric VIVIER, PU-PH of the Aix-Marseille University, in charge of the "Innate Lymphoid Cells" laboratory at the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, received this distinction on Saturday 24 March 2018, in the presence of the most eminent members of the faculty of the University of Liège and its management.

Researchers in France, Sandrine HENRI and Bernard MALISSEN, Inserm and CNRS researchers at the Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML), have discovered that, though a tattoo may be forever, the skin cells that carry the tattoo pigment are not. Instead, the researchers say, the cells can pass on the pigment to new cells when they die. The study, which will be published 2018, March, 6th in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, suggests ways to improve the ability of laser surgery to remove unwanted tattoos. Baranska A.