Jean-Claude Baron#
| Membership Number: | 6545 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Baron |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5264-2588 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010/10 - date INSERM Senior Director of Research (emeritus since 2017/01) and Deputy-Director, Center of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Paris V University; Consultant Neurologist, Sainte-Anne Hospital, Paris, France
- 2000/11 - 2010/10 Professor of Stroke Medicine, Dept Clin. Neurosciences, University of Cambridge (Emeritus since 2010/10) and Consultant Neurologist, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK
- 1989/01 - 2000/12 Director, INSERM Unit 320, University of Caen, France
- 1988/01 - 2000/10 Scientific Director, Cyceron PET and Neuroscience Centre, University of Caen, France
- 1986/10 - 2000/10, and 2010/10-2016/12 INSERM Director of Research (Neurosciences), France
- 1978/01 - 1986/09 Head, Neurology PET programme, Atomic Energy Commission, Frederic Joliot Research Centre, Orsay, France.
- 1982/10 - 1986/09 Lecturer in Neurology, Paris VI University
- 1980/01 - 1982/10 Lecturer in Medical Physics, Paris V University
- 1976/09 - 1977/08 Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
- 1974/10 - 1979/12 Resident in Medicine and Neurology, Paris University Hospitals
Fields of Scholarship
- Neurological disorders
- Clinical Research
- Physiological and functional neuroimaging
- Mechanisms underlying functional recovery after stroke
- Mechanisms underlying cerebral ischemia
- Positron emission tomography
- Cerebral amyloid angiopathy
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Cerebrovascular diseases and stroke
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
- 2021 Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard Lecture, European Academy of Neurology
- 2014 Mémain-Pelletier Biomedical Sciences Prize, French Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Clinical Excellence Bronze Award, NHS, UK
- 2005 Johannes Jacob Wepfer Excellence in Stroke Award, European Stroke Council
- 2003 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, UK
- 2003 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, UK
- 2002 Sir Gordon Holmes Lecture, Imperial College, London UK
- 1979 Ferdinand Dreyfous Prize, French Academy of Medicine
- 1979 Silver Medal, Residency in Medicine, Paris University Hospitals
