Arnold Munnich

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Arnold Munnich (born 9 October 1949, in Paris), is a French paediatrician-geneticist. He is the creator and head of the department of medical genetics at the Necker-Enfants malades hospital in Paris. He was an advisor to the President of the Republic from 2007 to 2012[1] and a member of the Scientific Council of the AMMi Association.

Scientific background[]

After a doctorate in medicine (1979) and a science thesis (1988) at the Institut Cochin in the U129 unit then headed by Axel Kahn, he was appointed Professor of Genetics at the University of Paris-Descartes in 1989. He has been head of the Inserm unit "Genetic handicaps of the child" since 1990, succeeding Jean Frézal, where he had done his clinic (1986-1990) at the Necker Hospital in Paris.

After Nicolas Sarkozy was elected President of the French Republic, Arnold Munnich was appointed Advisor to the President for Biomedical Research and Health.[2]

Arnold Munnich has tried to use molecular genetics in paediatrics and to reconcile clinical and molecular genetics. He is the co-founder and current president of the Imagine Institute of Genetic Diseases[3] and a member of the Scientific Council of the AMMi Association.

Distinctions[]

  •    1994: Jean Hamburger Prize of the City of Paris
  •    1999: Jean-Pierre-Lecocq Prize from the French Academy of Sciences
  •    1999: Eloi-Collery Prize of the National Academy of Medicine
  •    2000: Grand Prix de l'Inserm[1][4]
  •    2001: Jean Bernard Prize from the Fondation pour la recherche médicale
  •    2003: Member of the Institut Universitaire de France[5]
  •    2004: Member of the French Academy of Sciences[6]
  •    2007: Winner of the European Society of Human Genetics Award
  •    2009: Winner of the Gagna & Van Heck Award of the Belgian National Research Fund
  •    2012: Winner of the British Society of Human Genetics Carter Award
  •    2013: Officier of the Légion d'Honneur[7]
  •    2014: Jean-Bernard Grand Prize of the City of Paris

A 2021 publication found Munnich to be a central researcher for describing rare genetic diseases.[8]

Books[]

  •    La Rage d'espérer. La génétique au quotidien, Plon Publishing, 1999 (ISBN 2259189849)
  •    Programmé mais libre, Plon Editions, 2016 (ISBN 2259230091)

He is the author or co-author of more than 700 scientific publications.[9][10]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Histoire de l'Inserm".
  2. ^ « Un généticien à l’Élysée, au chevet de la recherche biomédicale », Le Monde, 23 juin 2007.
  3. ^ "Le Professeur Arnold Munnich Président de la Fondation Imagine". 11 December 2016..
  4. ^ "Prix Inserm".
  5. ^ "Institut Universitaire de France". Institut universitaire de France.
  6. ^ "Académie des sciences". Académie des sciences.
  7. ^ "Décret du 29 mars 2013 portant promotion et nomination". Légifrance.
  8. ^ Friederike Ehrhart; Egon L. Willighagen; Martina Kutmon; Max van Hoften; Leopold M. G. Curfs; Chris T. Evelo (4' 'May' '2021). "A resource to explore the discovery of rare diseases and their causative genes". Scientific Data. 8 (1): 124. doi:10.1038/S41597-021-00905-Y. ISSN 2052-4463. PMC 8096966. PMID 33947870. Wikidata Q106708178. Check date values in: |publication-date= (help)
  9. ^ PubMed
  10. ^ "Google Scholar".
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