September 11, 2020
Bulletin interne de l'Institut Pasteur
Institut Pasteur scientists recognized: Duquesne Award, Academia Europaea
- Shahragim Tajbakhsh, winner of the 2020 Duquesne Award
The René & Andrée Duquesne Award reflects the support of Mrs Andrée Duquesne for scientific research. In her will, Mrs Duquesne named the Institut Pasteur and the Comité de Paris de la Ligue Contre le Cancer as joint residuary legatees of her estate.
This year's award goes to Shahragim Tajbakhsh, Head of the Stem Cells and Development Unit at the Institut Pasteur. He shares the award with Professor Jean-Yves Blay, President of Unicancer, a medical oncologist, scientist and Professor of Medical Oncology and Executive Director of the Centre Léon Bérard (Lyon Cancer Institute).
Because of the health situation, the official prize-giving ceremony for the Duquesne Award has been postponed to a future date to be confirmed.
- Three Institut Pasteur scientists elected as new members of Academia Europaea
Academia Europaea was set up in 1988 in Cambridge as a European non-governmental association for the promotion of education and research. It currently has nearly 3.500 expert members specializing in a wide variety of fields including social and cognitive sciences, medicine, economics, law, literature, mathematics and physics.
Three Institut Pasteur scientists have recently been elected as new members of Academia Europaea in recognition of their achievements and their respective contributions to European research: Philippe Bousso, Head of the Dynamics of Immune Responses Unit, Guillaume Dumenil, Head of the Pathogenesis of Vascular Infections Unit, and David DiGregorio, Head of the Synapse and Circuit Dynamics Unit.