Olivier Schwartz#
| Membership Number: | 6694 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/virus-and-immunity/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0729-1475 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2008 Professor at the Institut Pasteur
- Since 2007 Head of the “Virus and Immunity Unit”, Institut Pasteur
- Institutional Responsibilities
- 2018 - 2019 Scientific Director of Institut Pasteur
- 2012 - 2014 Director of the Department of Virology, Institut Pasteur
- 2009 - 2011 President of the Scientific Council of Institut Pasteur
- 2005 - 2007 Coordinator of the “novel HIV targets” European Network of Research FP6
- 2003 - 2004 Deputy Director of CNRS Unit 1930, Institut Pasteur
Fields of Scholarship
- Immune response
- HIV
- Syncytia formation
- Emerging coronaviruses
- Monoclonal neutralising antibodies
- Vaccines
- SARS-CoV2 variants
- Interferon -Induced Trans-membrane Proteins (IFITMs)
- Virology-
- Viral cell fusion
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Duquesne Prize
- 2010 Louis Tartois Prize (Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale)
- 2008 Elected EMBO member
- 2008 Vallery-Radot Prize (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
- 2001 Zermati Prize (Fondation de France)
