Associate Professor William (Bill) Horsnell, member of the IDM and from the Division of Immunology, UCT, has been awarded a coveted Le Studium-Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship. This fellowship will provide support for Bill and his family to undertake a sabbatical year in 2017 working on acute lung inflammation. He will be based in the laboratory "Molecular and Experimental Immunology and Neurogenetics" directed by Dr Valérie Quesniaux and based at CNRS-Orléans, France, together with IDM Adjunct Member Professor Bernhard Ryffel, Director of Research, CNRS, and of the University Orléans, France.