Proya Takes IFSCC's Top Basic-Research Prize and Opens a Paris Lab

**Source:** Qingyan (青眼) · **Date:** 2026-10-15 · **Category:** R&D / Globalisation *原文：三国四站珀莱雅"生态出海"，中国美妆深入全球科研腹地* At the 36th IFSCC congress in Perth, Proya (珀莱雅) won the Best Basic Research Award, becoming the first Chinese beauty company to do so, for work on how MGME1-mediated mitochondrial DNA replication stability regulates fibroblast ageing through the cGAS-STING pathway. The group had 20 papers accepted, four of them oral presentations, up from 13 in 2024 and 14 in 2025, and took a second top-ten basic research prize for mitochondrial work on pigmentation, making it the only Chinese company to win IFSCC basic-research honours two years running. The congress was one stop on a three-country, four-leg tour: IFSCC in Perth, the EADV congress in Vienna, the opening of Proya's European innovation centre laboratory in Paris on October 13, and Cosmetic 360 in Paris on October 14-15. The Paris site, announced in October 2024, focuses on skin longevity and mitochondrial health, biomechanics and barrier tolerance, formulation, and sustainable ingredients, and ran a longevity science forum alongside. Proya is also one of three companies worldwide holding IFSCC gold technical benefacto

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