The 2026 Young Researcher Prize awarded to Sarah Hostachy by the SCF's cross-disciplinary chemobiology division recognizes her career, which demonstrates expertise built at the interface between chemistry and biology:

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• In 2015, she obtained a PhD in molecular chemistry from Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris), under the supervision of Prof. Clotilde Policar and Dr. Nicolas Delsuc. Her work focused on the development of metal complexes for multimodal imaging of proteins in cells.

• She then continued her research in Berlin, working with Prof. Dorothea Fiedler's group at the Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, where she developed molecular tools to better understand the role of polyphosphate inositols in biology.

• Recruited in 2020 to the Molecular Systems and Nanomaterials for Energy and Health Laboratory (SyMMES), her research now focuses on developing innovative chemobiological tools to decipher interactions between metals and living organisms, particularly metal-protein interactions.
  

The award will be presented to her at the SCF 2026 conference, which will be held in Bordeaux from 22 to 24 June 2026.