Pascale Cossart awarded the 2017 Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine

The Jung Foundation for Science and Research has awarded its 2017 Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine to 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. This medal, a prestigious international honor, is awarded in symbolic recognition of her impressive lifetime achievements in the study of bacterial infections and their dissemination. Her research has especially contributed to making Listeria monocytogenes one of the best studied pathogenic microorganisms and one of the most important model organisms in infection biology.

With its choice for this year's Gold Medal laureate, the Hamburg-based Ernst Jung Foundation recognizes an outstanding career in medical research that has helped shed new light on the mechanisms involved in bacterial infection. The medal includes a grant of €30,000, which Pascale Cossart can give to a young scientist of her choice.

The Ernst Jung Gold Medal, set up in 1990, is one of the most important international awards in this field.

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