James Di Santo#
| Membership Number: | 4600 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.pasteur.fr/fr/team/innate-immunity |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017, 01, Visiting Professor, School of Public Health, Hong Kong University
- 2016, 01, Adjoint Director, Translational Research Center, Institut Pasteur
- 2016, 01, Director, Inserm U1223, Institut Pasteur
- 2014, 10, Advisor to the President, Institut Pasteur
- 2011, 01, Research Director Exceptional Class, Inserm
- 2011, 01, Director, Innate Immunity Unit, Institut Pasteur
- 2010, 09, Visiting Scientist, Experimental Immunology Branch, NCI/NIH
- 2007, 01, Professor, Institut Pasteur
- 2005, 01, Director, Inserm U668, Institut Pasteur
- 2002, 01, Director, Department of Immunology, Institut Pasteur
Fields of Scholarship
- Human and mouse lymphocyte development, cytokines, transcription factors, in vivo models
- Mouse models for human disease, humanized mice, HIV biology, tumor models
- Biology of innate immunity, innate lymphoid cells, NK cells
- Cytokine signaling, growth factors, lymphopoiesis
- Immunodeficiency diseases
Honours and Awards
- 2017 European Federation of Immunological Societies Award
- 2016 Visiting Professor, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science
- 2015 ERC Advanced Grant ‘ILC_REACTIVITY’
- 2013 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
- 2013 Distinguished Immunologist Award, University of Alberta
- 2009 Jacques Oudin Prize, French Society of Immunology
- 2006 Jean-Paul Binet Prize, Fondation de la Recherche Médicale
- 2005 Grand Challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- 1994 EMBO short-term fellowship, University of Cologne
- 1990 Gustav Cudowicz Prize in Immunology, Cornell U. Medical College
