Patrice Courvalin#
| Membership Number: | 4623 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - present Emeritus Professor, Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur
- 1983 - 2015 Head of the Antibacterial Agents Unit, Institut Pasteur
- 1983 - 2011 Director of the National Reference Center for Resistance to Antibiotics
- 1991 - 1994 Visiting Prof., Dept. of Biology, Univ. California, San Diego, USA
- 1989 - 1990 Visiting Prof., Prof. D.R. Helinski, Center for Molecular Genetics, Univ. California, San Diego
- 1978 - 1983 Laboratory of Biochemistry, Prof. Y.A. Chabbert, Dept. of Bacteriology, Institut Pasteur
- 1973 - 1974 Oncogenic Viruses Unit, Prof. F. Cuzin, Dept of Molecular Biology, Institut Pasteur
- 1974 - 1977 Research Associate, Prof. J.E. Davies, Dept. of Biochemistry, Univ. Wisconsin, Madison, USA
- 1970 - 1972 Medical Bacteriology Unit, Prof. Y.A. Chabbert, Dept of Bacteriology, Institut Pasteur
Fields of Scholarship
- Genetics
- Biochemistry
- Antibiotic resistance
- Infectious diseases
Honours and Awards
- 1974 Paris School of Medicine Award
- 1994 Louis Garrod Award of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
- 1995 Hamao Umezawa Award of the International Society for Chemotherapy
- 1997 Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Biomedical Research Grant in Infectious Diseases
- 1997 Hoechst Marion Roussel Award of the American Society for Microbiology
- 2001 ESCMID Award for Excellence in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
- 2004 Grand Prix of the French National Academy of Sciences.
- 2007 Jean Valade Award of the Fondation de France.
- 2012 BD Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology of the American Society for Microbiology.
- 2013 Gold Medal of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
- 2016 Sanofi-Institut Pasteur Award
- 1997 Elected member of the American Academy of Microbiology
- 1997 Elected member of the Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
- 2001 Honorary Member of the Australian Society for Antimicrobials
- 2009 Elected member of the French National Academy of Technologies
- 2009 Elected member of the European Academy of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
- 2015 Elected member of the European Academy for Microbiology
- 2002 Doctor Honoris Causa, Faculty of Medicine, University of Mons, Hainaut, Belgium.
- 2008 Doctor Honoris Causa, Technical University of Denmark.
- 2013 Docteur Honoris Causa, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
