Cédric Blanpain#
| Membership Number: | 4341 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://blanpainlab.ulb.ac.be |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 Professor (“Professeur Ordinaire”) at the Universtité Libre de Bruxelles
- 2012 - 2013 Full professor (“Professeur”) at the Universtité Libre de Bruxelles
- 2006 - 2012 Tenure Assistant Professor and independent group leader of the Belgian Research National Scientific Fund (F.N.R.S.) at the Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRIBHM), ULB, Belgium
- 2002 - 2006 Post-doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology & Development, Prof. E. Fuchs-Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
- 2002 Board Certified Internal Medicine, ULB, Belgium
- 2001 - 2002 Residency in Medical Genetics, Hôpital Erasme, Brussels, ULB, Belgium
- 2001 PhD in Medical Science, ULB, Supervisor: Prof. M. Parmentier “ Etude des relations structure-fonction de CCR5 et ses ligands”
- 1997 - 2001 Research Fellow of the Belgian National Research Scientific Fund (F.N.R.S.) at the Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRIBHM), Medical School, ULB, Belgium
- 1995 - 1997 Residency in Internal Medicine, Hôpital Erasme, Brussels, ULB, Belgium
- 1995 MD graduated from Medical School of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB, Belgium) with summa cum laudae
Fields of Scholarship
- Stem cells
- Developmental biology
- Gastrulation and cardiac developmental
- Epithelial biology
- Cancer
- Cancer cell of origin
- Cancer stem cells
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Elected member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine
- 2015 Joseph Maisin Award for basic biomedical Science-quinquenal award of the Belgian National Scientific Research Fund
- 2014 - 2018 ERC consolidator grant -
- 2012 Liliane Bettencourt Award for Life Sciences 2012
- 2012 EMBO member
- 2012 Wallonia Region Medal (Officer)
- 2012 Outstanding Young Investigator Award International Society of Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)
- 2012 Chair Bauchau award
- 2010 Fond Gaston Ithier Award
- 2010 Fondation ULB award
- 2009 EMBO Young Investigator award
- 2009 Fond Gaston Ithier award
- 2008 - 2013 ERC Starting Grant
- 2007 - 2009 Research grant from Schlumberger Foundation for Education and Research (FSER)
- 2006 - 2009 Career Development Award (CDA) from the Human Science Frontier Program Organization (H.S.F.P.O.)
- 2001 Galien Award of Pharmacology
