Marie-Alix was an outstanding immunologist whose career uniquely combined immunology and antibody engineering. After earning her PhD in Montpellier in 1994 and completing a postdoctoral stay at the University of California, San Francisco, she taught at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan before returning to Montpellier as Professor of Immunology. At the University of Montpellier and the IRCM, she advanced research on therapeutic antibodies and cancer biology, co-directed the Master’s t...