About SFEL and Scientific Days « Journées CHEVREUL »

SFEL is a scientific association whose objective is to promote dissemination of knowledge in the field of lipids and challenges in research and development in this field (https://www.sfel.asso.fr/), mainly through the regular organization of scientific days "Journées Chevreul" and the publication of the journal “Oilseeds and fats, Crops and Lipids” (OCL, https://www.ocl-journal.org/fr/). Our society was created almost 80 years ago and formerly known as the "Association Française pour l'Etude des Corps Gras" (AFECG).

The scientific days « Journées Chevreul » are known in the world of lipids both nationally and internationally (https://www.sfel.asso.fr/journees-chevreul/congres-precedents/). Since 2007, we have also organized the Journées Chevreul “Lipids & Brain” every four years, which bring together between 100 and 200 participants in this field, and publish the articles of the presentations in the form of special issues in OCL. Since 1963 and twice a year, we have awarded a Scientific Medal to French or foreign scientific personalities who have contributed significantly to the development of scientific knowledge or industrial achievements in the field of lipids. This medal is awarded under the name "Médaille Chevreul". In 1993, for the 50th anniversary of the association, the Chevreul Gold Medal was awarded to the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics, Professor Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. Since then, other outstanding scientific personalities have also received this medal such as Jean-Marie Bourre (1989), Michel Parmentier (2005), André Crastes de Paulet (2005), Frédéric Carrière (2007), François Mordret (2008), Michel Lagarde (2010), Thierry Durand (2018) and Marie-Caroline Michalski (2022) for the French ones, Stanley Rappoport (2007), Michael Crawford (2015), Stephen Cunnane (2017), Robert Gibson, Jun Ogawa (2021) and Robert Bazinet (2023) for foreign personalities. For the coming years, the CHEVREUL Medal will be awarded in 2022 to Marie-Caroline MICHALSKI for the excellence of the scientific work carried out in recent years in the field of Human Nutrition and Lipids. The medal will be awarded on September 23, 2022 in Paris during a scientific day organized with CNIEL, the French Dairy Interbranch Organization, around « Dairy Lipids and Human Health ».