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The AXA Research Fund, a world-wide initiative of scientific philanthropy supported by the global insurance group AXA, awarded €1.25 Million to University of Tokyo (Japan) to create a five year Chair for Health and Human Security, held by Professor Manami Inoue. Her research will help achieve the objectives of human security by demonstrating the potential for disease prevention through the reduction of major risk factors in Japan, the country with the longest life expectancy at birth in the world.

The AXA Research Fund, a world-wide initiative of scientific philanthropy supported by the global insurance group AXA, awarded €2.25 Million to University of Strasbourg (France) to create a Chair for Supramolecular Chemistry, held by Professor Luisa De Cola. Her work will follow in the footsteps of the research begun by Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Prize Laureate for Chemistry in 1987, and carried out within France's leading international research center for chemistry: the University of Strasbourg.

The AXA Research Fund, a global initiative of scientific philanthropy supported by the worldwide insurance group AXA, is awarding €2 Million to Sciences Po to create an endowed Chair on Understanding Consequences of Market Instability for Politics and Society, held by Prof Marion Fourcade. This Chair will be integrated in the new MaxPo Research Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies, an innovative Franco-German initiative created by the prestigious Max Planck Society and Sciences Po.

Milan - The AXA Research Fund, a global initiative of scientific philanthropy supported by the worldwide insurance group AXA, is awarding 2 million Euros to the Università Bocconi to create a permanent endowed Chair in Risk, held by Prof Massimo Marinacci.

The AXA Research Fund, a global initiative of scientific philanthropy supported by the worldwide insurance group AXA, is awarding 617,000 Euros to the University of Bristol to create a Chair on understanding and mitigating volcanic catastrophes, held by Prof Katharine Cashman. This Chair could notably answer key questions of how volcanic plumes form, how they spread, and how hazardous they might become.