Christine Petit#
| Membership Number: | 1887 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1999 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 Professor at College de France, chair of “Genetics and Cellular Physiology”
- Head of the “Genetics and Physiology of Hearing laboratory” at Institut Pasteur
Fields of Scholarship
- Neurobiology of the sensory systems
- Molecular and cellular physiology and pathophysiology
- Human genetics
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Gruber Prize in Neuroscience (shared with Christopher A. Walsh)
- 2020 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (shared with James Hudspeth and Robert Fettiplace)
- 2018 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience (shared with James Hudspeth and Robert Fettiplace)
- Officer of the National Order of Merit
- 2016 Foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2014 Officer of the National Order of Merit
- 2012 The Brain Prize -Grete Lundbeck Foundation, Europe
- 2011 Knight of the Legion of Honour
- 2011 Pasarow Medical Research Award “Neuropsychiatry”, USA
- 2007 Grand Prix INSERM de la recherche médicale
- 2006 Louis-Jeantet for Medicine Prize-Europe
- 2005 Bristol-Myers-Squibb “Freedom to Discover” Award in Neuroscience
- 2004 Institute for Health Sciences “Research and Medicine” Award
- 2004 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards
- 2001 Ernst Jung Preis für Wissenschaft und Forschung: Medizin, Germany
- 1999 French Academy of Sciences: Charles-Leopold Mayer Award
- Fellow of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, USA
- Member of the French Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Academia Europaea
