Royal Society and Academia Europaea: Institut Pasteur scientists recognized

•    Yasmine Belkaid elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society

Each year, the Fellows of the Royal Society elect up to 24 new Foreign Members who must have made 'a substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science'. This year, Yasmine Belkaid has the honor of being one of the new Foreign Members of the Royal Society.

Founded in 1660 in London, the Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship made up of many of the world’s most eminent scientists, engineers, and technologists. The Royal Society's fundamental purpose is to recognize, promote and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of mankind.

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•    Five 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 4,500 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.

Five Pasteur scientists were recently elected as new members of Academia Europaea in recognition of their achievements and their respective contributions to European research:

- Mélanie Hamon, Head of the Chromatin and infection Unit
- Simon Cauchemez, Head of the Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases Unit
- Christophe D’Enfert, Head of the Fungal Biology and Pathogenicity Unit
- Benoît Chassaing, Head of the Host-Microbe Interactions and Pathophysiology Unit
- Aziz El Amraoui, Head of the Progressive Sensory Disorders, Pathophysiology and Therapy Unit at the Hearing Institute (Institut Pasteur center, Inserm U1335, CNRS UMR8252), Institut reConnect.

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