July 02, 2021
Bulletin interne de l'Institut Pasteur
Academia Europaea, Gaston Ramon Prize: several Institut Pasteur scientists recognized with awards
- 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 from 35 European countries and 8 non-European countries specializing in a wide variety of fields including social science, medicine, economics, law, literature and mathematics.
Three Institut Pasteur scientists were recently elected as new members of Academia Europaea in recognition of their achievements and their respective contributions to European research: Hilde de Reuse, Head of the Helicobacter Pathogenesis Unit, Didier Mazel, Head of the Bacterial Genome Plasticity Unit, and Marc Delarue, Head of the Architecture and Dynamics of Biological Macromolecules Unit.
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- Pasteur's Nephew – Or the Adventurous Life of Adrien Loir, Scholar and Globe-Trotter (1862-1941), the book by Annick Perrot and Maxime Schwartz, receives the Gaston Ramon Prize
Gaston Ramon (1886-1963) was a world-renowned microbiologist who developed toxoids, adjuvants and related vaccines. He was a colleague of Dr. Émile Roux and was Director of the Institut Pasteur in Garches, Deputy Director then Director of the Institut Pasteur in Paris and Director of the International Office of Epizootics.
The Gaston Ramon Prize is awarded by the French Veterinary Academy for publications in the area of infectious diseases. This year, the book Le Neveu de Pasteur ou la Vie aventureuse d'Adrien Loir, savant et globe-trotter (1862-1941) (Pasteur's Nephew – Or the Adventurous Life of Adrien Loir, Scholar and Globe-Trotter (1862-1941)) (see previous newsletter), by Annick Perrot, honorary curator of the Pasteur Museum, and Maxime Schwartz, a molecular biologist and former President of the Institut Pasteur, received the award. The significance of this year's award cannot be overstated, especially as the book was published in March 2020, just as France was entering its first lockdown and bookshops were forced to close!