Anne-Laure Bulin is a researcher at Inserm, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research. She has been working for over 10 years on the activation of PDT by X-rays.

 

She received her PhD in 2014 from the University of Lyon, for her work on the energy relaxation mechanisms involved in nanoscintillators, carried out under the supervision of Professor Christophe Dujardin. She then joined Professor Tayyaba Hasan’s lab at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, where she studied the combination of PDT with radiotherapy on 3D models of ovarian and pancreatic tumors. In 2017, she received a grant from the French Medical Research Foundation to return to France and establish her activity in the Synchrotron Radiation for Biomedicine group in Grenoble, France, where she investigated how nanoscintillators can improve radiotherapy. In 2019, she obtained a researcher position at Inserm and joined the Institute for Advanced Biosciences, where she started her group on photon-therapies. In 2023, she was awarded a ERC Starting Grant to pursue her research program on nanoscintillators and how these nanoparticles can potentiate radiotherapy, in particular by inducing deep tissue PDT.

 

2022 Early Investigator Award, International Photodynamic Association

2021 Young Investigator Award, European Society for Photobiology

2017 Bullock-Wellman postdoctoral Fellowship, Wellman Center for Photomedicine
2016 Young Researcher Award, Bettencourt-Schueller Foundation
2015 Young Researcher Award, City of Lyon
2013 For Women in Science Award, L’Oréal France - UNESCO Foundation