The ATIP-Avenir grant will allow Marie Frutoso to substantially develop her research programme on the role of Natural Killer (NK) cells in Sjögren's disease by covering 5-year salary for her, 2-year salary for an engineer and experiments through an annual grant of €60,000.  

ATIP-Avenir is a programme from the Inserm and CNRS designed to help promising researchers to create a team in the fields of sciences and health. Each year, twenty young researchers receive the support of the grant.