ABOUT THE PRIZE
Madame Andrée Duquesne has designated the Comité de Paris de la Ligue contre le Cancer and the Institut Pasteur as joint legatees. According to her testamentary dispositions, the interests of her entire estate are to be used annually to finance two research prizes. The recipients of these prizes are chosen by her two legatees: the Comité de Paris de la Ligue contre le Cancer selects one laureate (working on cancer), and the Institut Pasteur selects another (all fields are eligible).
Prize amount*: €75,000 (€20,000 for the laureate, €55,000 for the laboratory).
*Please not that this prize amount will be subject to adjustments in accordance with applicable tax regulations. The final amount awarded will take into account any deductions required by law.
NOMINATOR ELIGIBILITY
- Heads of entities, group leaders, emeritus and honorary professors working at the Institut Pasteur are eligible to nominate a candidate.
- A nomination from a nominator who collaborates or has collaborated with the nominee within the last five years is not accepted.
- Members of the Institut Pasteur Scientific Council and of the Institut Pasteur Direction are not eligible to nominate a candidate, but members of their laboratories may be nominated.
- Nominators can submit only one nomination per award.
- Nomination files will remain eligible for two years and can be updated, provided the nominee is still eligible for the Prize.
NOMINEE ELIGIBILITY
- Self-nomination is not allowed.
- Eligible nominees must have worked at the Institut Pasteur for a minimum of five years and must hold, at the time of application, a permanent position either at the Institut Pasteur or as OREX (CNRS, Inserm, INRA, etc.).
- Awardees are not eligible for another award for a period of five years following the last award obtained (see below for the list of the last five years’ laureates). For the 2025 call, laureates who obtained the prize in 2019 or later are not eligible.
- The prize cannot be awarded to a principal investigator (PI) whose entity is scheduled to close within two years following the prize attribution.
- All research fields are eligible for the Institut Pasteur nominee.
SELECTION OF LAUREATES
The Institut Pasteur Scientific Council will select the laureate of the Duquesne Prize at its annual meeting in June 2025.
Laureate selection is subject to approval by the President of the Institut Pasteur.
Members of the Institut Pasteur Scientific Council are listed at this address: https://webcampus.pasteur.fr/jcms/c_69296/conseil-scientifique
SUBMITTING A NOMINATION
The complete nomination file (click) should be sent to hafida.fsihi@pasteur.fr as a single pdf file before the deadline of: May 12, 2025 (6 PM).
Nomination files will be kept eligible for two years and can be updated provided (i) the nominator still agrees with the nomination and (ii) the nominee is still eligible for the Prize.
PAST LAUREATES OF THE DUQUESNE PRIZE
Artur Scherf (2024), Thomas Bourgeron (2023); Olivier Schwartz (2022); Sylvie van der Werf (2021); Shahragim Tajbakhsh (2020); Lluis Quintana-Murci (2019); Pascale Cossart (2018); Marc Lecuit (2017); Anavaj Sakuntabhaj (2016); Arnaud Fontanet (2015); Anne Dejean (2014); Pierre-Jean Corringer (2013); Antoine Gessain (2012); Philippe Sansonetti (2011); Uwe Maskos (2010); Bernard Dujon (2009); Felix Rey (2008).
