Institut Pasteur scientists rewarded

Several Pasteurians recently received honors from several institutions, foundations and organizations for their contribution to advancing research and knowledge.

 

• Pascale Cossart, winner of the 2018 FEMS-Lwoff Award

This year, Pascale Cossart, head of the Bacteria-Cell Interactions Unit (Inserm U604, INRA USC2020), Professor at the Institut Pasteur and Permanent Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences, is the 2018 laureate of the FEMS-Lwoff Award, notably in recognition of her outstanding research on bacterial infections and their impact on society. This award is presented by the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS).

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https://fems-microbiology.org/and-the-fems-lwoff-awardee-is-pascale-cossart/
http://fems2019.org/news-detail/news/and-the-fems-lwoff-awardee-is-pascale-cossart/

 

 

• François Xavier Weill, winner of the 2018 Eloi Collery Prize from the French National Academy of Medicine

The French National Academy of Medicine awards a number of prizes every year. Some prizes are related to specific fields according to donors' wishes, while others are designed to reward or encourage research in the medical, pharmaceutical or veterinary sciences but with no particular set theme.

The prizes are often named after the benefactors who bequeathed the assets required for their creation to the Academy. Prize winners are awarded the title of Laureate of the French National Academy of Medicine.

One of the laureates selected by the French National Academy of Medicine on July 4 was François-Xavier Weill, Head of the Enteric Bacterial Pathogens Unit and Director of the French National Reference Center (CNR) for E. coli, Shigella and Salmonella and the WHO Collaborating Center (WHOCC) for Reference and Research on Salmonella. He was awarded the Academy's highest honor, the Eloi Collery Prize.

The prize recognized a "Better understanding of the emergence, genetic evolution and circulatory pathways of enteric bacterial pathogens, in particular those with epidemic potential and/or multidrug resistance to antibiotics".

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• Christophe Beloin, appointed Associate Professor at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

Christophe Beloin, group leader in the Genetics of Biofilms Unit directed by Jean-Marc Ghigo (Department of Microbiology), was recently appointed Associate Professor at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine.

This honorary title recognizes the expertise of Christophe Beloin in the development of models for the study of interactions between commensal bacteria and pathogens. The appointment will strengthen cooperation between the Genetics of Biofilms Unit and the department of Dr. Ventolini with a view to identifying methods for controlling the formation of pathogenic biofilms within vaginal flora.