Professor Simon Galas’s work in the spotlight

In 2020, Simon Galas, a professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy and a researcher at the Max Mousseron Institute of Biomolecules, and his team reported that a species of tardigrade was capable of synthesizing a unique extracellular structure that protects it from desiccation. The article, published in Scientific Reports in March 2020, is among the journal’s most-read articles (45th). Read the article:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61165-1

In 2021, Simon Galas was interviewed by The Guardian, which introduced readers to the fascinating world of tardigrades:Tardigrades: nature’s great survivors | Science | The Guardian.