Christine Petit
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| Born | 4 February 1948 Laignes, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Geneticist |
| Employer | Professor, Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute |
| Awards | Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2006)[1] Kavli Prize in Neuroscience (2018) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2020) Gruber Prize in Neuroscience (2021) |
Christine Petit (born 4 February 1948) is a French geneticist. She holds professorships at the Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute.[2]
Biography[]
Petit was born in Laignes in 1948.[3] She initially studied at the Paris teaching hospital, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital and at the Pasteur Institute. She completed two pieces of post-doctoral research at the Centre for Molecular Research in Gif-sur-Yvette and another in Basel.
Petit holds professorships at Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute.[2] She has a member of the Academy of Science since 14 January 2002.[4]
Petit's research has explored the link between genes and deafness, with her research group at INSERM "Génétique et physiologie de l’audition".[2] She is one of the pioneers of .
Together with Karen Steel, Petit won the Royal Society Brain Prize 2012, for their pioneering work on the genetics of hearing and deafness.[5]
Prizes and honours[]
- 1999 : Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer of the Academy of Sciences
- 2004 : L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science
- 2006 : Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine[1]
- 2007 : Grand Prix of Medical Research INSERM
- 2012 : Co-recipient with Karen Steel of the Royal Society's Brain Prize[6]
- 2016 : Foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences[7]
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Officer of the National Order of Merit
- 2018 : Kavli Prize in Neuroscience (shared with James Hudspeth and Robert Fettiplace)
- 2020 : Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (shared with James Hudspeth and Robert Fettiplace).[8]
- 2021 : Gruber Prize in Neuroscience (shared with Christopher A. Walsh).[9]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Professor Christine PETIT | Jeantet". 1 October 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "ESPCI ParisTech : Conseil de perfectionnement". Espci.fr. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
- ^ "Biographie – Christine Petit – Génétique et physiologie cellulaire – Collège de France". College-de-france.fr. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
- ^ "Christine Petit – Les membres de l'Académie des Sciences". 14 January 2002. Archived from the original on 9 June 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
- ^ "Royal Society Fellow awarded the € 1 million Brain Prize 2012". The Royal Society. 12 March 2012. Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
- ^ "Christine Petit, lauréate du Brain Prize 2012". Inserm.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 9 June 2013. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
- ^ National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, News from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, 3 May 2016, archived from the original on 6 May 2016, retrieved 14 May 2016.
- ^ "The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize". Columbia University Irving Medical Center. 14 June 2018.
- ^ "Neuroscience | Gruber Foundation". gruber.yale.edu.
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