Four 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.

In May 2016, four Institut Pasteur scientists were elected as new members of Academia Europaea in recognition of their achievements and their respective contributions to European research: Carmen Buchrieser, Head of the Biology of Intracellular Bacteria Unit, Michael Nilges, Head of the Structural Bioinformatics Unit, François Schweisguth, Head of the Drosophila Developmental Genetics Unit, and Shahragim Tajbakhsh, Head of the Stem Cells and Development Unit.