2021 Duquesne Award, Clarivate Citation Laureates: two Institut Pasteur scientists recognized

• Sylvie van der Werf, winner of the 2021 Duquesne Award

The René & Andrée Duquesne Award reflects Andrée Duquesne's commitment to and support for scientific research. In her will, Mrs. Duquesne named the Institut Pasteur and the Ligue Contre le Cancer – Paris Committee as joint residuary legatees of her estate.

This year the award went to Sylvie van der Werf, Head of the Molecular Genetics of RNA Viruses Unit, Head of the Coordinating Center at the National Reference Center for Respiratory Infection Viruses and Head of the WHO Reference Center for H5 Influenza Viruses and SARS-CoV-2. She shares the award with Professor Laurence Zitgovel, Head of the Inserm Unit at the Institut Gustave Roussy and a university professor/hospital practitioner in immunobiology at Paris XI-Université de Paris Saclay Teaching Hospital and the Kremlin Bicêtre Faculty.

The Duquesne Award was presented on September 20 in the Salle des Actes at the Institut Pasteur, at a ceremony attended by Stewart Cole, President of the Institut Pasteur, and Bruno Varet, Deputy Chairman responsible for research at the Ligue Contre le Cancer – Paris Committee.

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• Jean-Pierre Changeux selected as a Clarivate Citation Laureate

Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today named 16 world-class researchers from six countries as Citation Laureates™. These are researchers whose work is deemed to be ‘of Nobel class’, as demonstrated by analysis carried out by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)™.

Each year since 2002, ISI analysts have drawn on Web of Science™ publication and citation data to identify influential researchers in the research areas recognized by Nobel Prizes: Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and Economics. Out of some 52 million articles and proceedings indexed in the Web of Science since 1970, only 6,500 (or .01%) have been cited 2,000 or more times. It is from the authors of this group of papers that Citation Laureates are identified and selected. They are individuals whose research publications are highly cited and whose contributions to science have been extremely influential, even transformative.

This year’s list includes 16 new Citation Laureates from institutions in six countries: France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Singapore, United States
59 Citation Laureates named by the Institute for Scientific Information have gone on to receive a Nobel Prize.

Jean-Pierre Changeux, Institut Pasteur Professor Emeritus, was selected this year by Clarivate as one of its 16 Citation Laureates, "for contributions to our understanding of neuroreceptors and especially the identification of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and its allosteric properties." He joins a community of scientists recognized for their excellence.

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