Philippe J. Sansonetti#
| Membership Number: | 2076 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2001 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.hhmi.org/scientists/philippe-j-sansonetti |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008-Professor and head of the Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire and Unité INSERM 786 at the Pasteur Institute of Paris.
- Chair of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the Collège de France
- 2000-2010 HHMI international research scholar
Fields of Scholarship
- Immunology
- Microbiology
Honours and Awards
- 2012-2017 Senior Foreign Member of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- 2012 Grand Prix de l’INSERM
- 2012 Commandeur de l’Ordre National du Mérite
- 2012 Elected foreign member to the US National Academy of Sciences
- 2011 President of the European Academy of Microbiology
- 2011 Awarded (with Prof. Pascale Cossart) the coordination of a Laboratory of Excellence (Integrative Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases) in the framework of the national program “Investments for the future”
- 2011 Duquesne Prize
- 2010 Award of the coordination of a major European Union grant (STOPENTERICS) for the development of novel vaccines against Shigella and Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli
- 2010 Member of the European Academy of Microbiology
- 2009 GSK Foreign scientist of the Year Award, American Society for Microbiology & American Academy of Microbiology
- 2008-2013 Awarded European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (HOMEOEPITH)
- 2008 Elected Member to the Swedish Academy of Biotechnology
- 2007 Elected external member to the Max Planck Society
- 2006 Elected member of the American Academy of Art and Sciences *1993 Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite
- 2002 Elected correspondent to the French Academy of Medicine
- 2002 Elected member to the Deutsche Akademie der Natursforscher Leopoldina
- 2001 Elected member to the French Academy of Sciences
- 2001 Invited speaker to the Jubilee Symposium « Beyond Genes », 100th Anniversary of the Nobel Prize, Stockholm
- 2000 AGF-Athena Prize, French Academy of Sciences, Institut de France
- 2000 André Lwoff Medal For outstanding service to Microbiology in Europe, Federation of European Microbiology Societies
- 2000-2005 (renewed 2005-2010) Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholar
- 1997 Robert Koch Prize, Germany
- 1994 Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur
- 1994 Louis-Jeantet Prize of Medicine, Switzerland
- 1994 Elected member to the American Academy of Microbiology
- 1993 EMBO member
- 1990 Grand Prix of the French Academy of Medicine
- 1989 Prix Jacques Monod for Excellence in Molecular Biology
