Pierre Leopold#
| Membership Number: | 4920 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://minilien.curie.fr/kue9m2 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Director, Dept Genetics and Developmental Biology, Institut Curie, Paris, France
- 1998 - 2018 Group leader, iBV, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France
- 1993 - 1997 ATIP Group Leader, CNRS, Station Zoologique, Villefranche-sur-mer, France
- 1990 - 1992 Postdoctoral fellow, University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, USA
- 1988 - present Permanent researcher position, Inserm, France
- 1979 - 1984 scholar of Ecole Normale Supérieur de Saint-Cloud, France
Fields of Scholarship
- Drosophila
- Developmental genetics
- Nutrition
- Physiology of growth
- Nutritonal physiology
- Organ crosstalks
- Hormones
- Ecdysone
- Organ size
- Insulin
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Grand Prize Foundation for Medical Research (FRM)
- 2016 ERC Advanced Grant award
- 2014 Research Director Exceptional Class at INSERM
- 2014 Prize of the French Academy of Sciences (Grandes avancées)
- 2011 INSERM Research Prize
- 2010 ERC Advanced Grant award
- 2009 Prize J. Martin of the French Academy of Sciences
- 2008 Elected EMBO member
- 2006 Prize of the French Academy of Sciences (Grandes avancées)
- 1993 ATIPE CNRS starting grant.
- 1990 Fogarty Fellow
