Luc Montagnier#
| Membership Number: | 106 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Present and Previous Positions
- Full-time professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China
- Since 2005 President-CEO and Co-founder of several startups in biotechnology
- Since 2000 Professor Emeritus, Pasteur Institute.
- Since 1999 Director of Research, Emeritus, C.N.R.S.
- Since 1993 President of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, associated with UNESCO (Paris)
- 1997-2001 Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Queens College, CUNY, New York
- 1991-1997 Chief of Retrovirus Department, Pasteur Institute
- 1985-2000 Professor, Pasteur Institute
- 1980-1985 Chief of the Virology Department and Head of the Post Graduate Course of General Virology, Pasteur Institute
- 1974-1998 Director of Research, C.N.R.S.
- 1972-2000 Founder and Director of the Viral Oncology Unit at the Virology Department, Pasteur Institut
Fields of Scholarship
- Virology
- Discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
- Pathophysiology of AIDS
Honours and Awards
- Honors
- Knight of the Legion of Honour (1984)
- Commander of the National Order of Merit (1986)
- Officer of the Legion of Honour (1990)
- Commander of the Legion of Honour (1993)
- Officer of the Mayo Order (Argentina, 2000)
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (2009)
- Prizes
- C.N.R.S. bronze medal (1964)
- Rozen prize for cancerology (1971)
- C.N.R.S. silver medal (1973)
- Gallien prize (1985)
- Louis Jeantet prize (1986)
- James Blundel prize (1986)
- Korber Foundation for European Research prize (1986)
- Albert Lasker prize (1986)
- Gairdner prize (1987)
- Japan prize (1988)
- King Faisal Price of Saudi Arabia International prize for medicine (1993)
- Amsterdam Foundation for Medicine prize of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (1994)
- Atomic Energy Committee (CEA) prize (1994)
- Hippocrates prize of the Hellenic Society for Internal Medicine (1995)
- Neil Hamilton Fairley prize ot the Royal College of Physicians of London (1994)
- Steve Chase humanitarian prize (1995)
- Rome "Frégéné" prize (1996)
- Japanese Red Cross prize (1997)
- German Red Cross prize (1997)
- Warren Alpert prize, USA (1998)
- « Recherche et Médecine » prize (Institut des Sciences de la Santé, Paris) (1999)
- Prince of Asturias Award (2000)
- Laureate of the National Inventors Hall of Fame (2004)
- “Prestige” EDC Prize of Ecole des Dirigeants et Créateurs d’entreprises, Paris (2005)
- Prize of the “Académie des sciences médicales” of Bilbao (2006)
- Prize of the MBC News of Dubaï (Saudia Arabia) (2007)
- Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, Stockholm (2008)
- Doctor Honoris Causa
- University of Leuven (Belgium)
- University of Liege (Belgium)
- University of Salonica (Greece)
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (New York)
- American University of Paris (France)
- University of Bologna (Italia)
- University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
- University of Urbino (Italia)
- University of Montreal (Canada)
- University of Laval (Quebec)
- University of London (United Kingdom)
- University of Bucharest (Romania)
- University of Athens (Greece)
- Academician member
- Member of Academy of Sciences of Madrid (1987)
- Foreign member of Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium (1988)
- Member of the French Academy of Medicine (1989)
- Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization EMBO (1990)
- Member of the French Academy of Sciences (1996)
- Honorary Member of the Academy of Medicine of Turin, Italy (2006)
