Present and Previous Positions
- Head of the Bacteria-Cell Interactions Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris
- since 2006 Professeur de Classe Exceptionnelle à l’Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 1997 – 2005 Professeur à l’Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 1988 – 1996 Chef de Laboratoire à l’Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 1980 – 1987 Chargée de Recherches à l’Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 1976 – 1979 Assistante à l’Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 1974 – 1975 Professeur de Biochimie à l’École Royale de Médecine, Vientiane, Laos
- 1972 – 1974 Boursière de la Fondation Roux. Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 1972 – 1972 Boursière de la Fondation Philippe. Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 1970 – 1971 University fellow à Georgetown University, Washington D. C.
- 1969 – 1970 Assistante à l’IUT de Biologie appliquée de Lille
Fields of Scholarship
- Infectious diseases
Honours and Awards
- 1995 EMBO member
- 1995 UNESCO Prize “Carlos Finlay”
- 1997 Louis Rapkine Award
- 1998 L’Oreal/UNESCO Award for Women in Science
- 1998 Richard Lounsbery Prize, Académie des Sciences, Paris/National Academy of Sciences, USA
- 1998 Academia Europae member
- 1998 Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur
- 1999 Corresponding member of the French “Académie des Sciences”, Paris
- 2000 NESTLE Prize “L’homme et sa nutrition”
- 2000 Louis Pasteur Gold Medal, Swedish Society of Medicine, Stockholm
- 2000-2010 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, International Research Scholar
- 2001 Member of the “Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina”, Germany
- 2002 Member of the French “Académie des Sciences”, Paris
- 2002 Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite
- 2003 Valade Senior Prize, Fondation de France
- 2003 – 2007, 2008-2011 Member of the CCNE (Comité Consultatif National d’Ethique
- 2004 Member of the Academy of Microbiology
- 2005 INSERM Prize of Fundamental Research
- 2007 GLAXO SMITH KLINE International Member of the Year Award, (ASM, Toronto)
- 2007 Robert Koch Prize, Berlin
- 2007 Officier de la Legion d’honneur
- 2008 René Descartes Prize (2008) for collaborative transnational research, Brussel
- 2008 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- 2008 ERC Advanced Grant Award
- 2009 Member of the European Academy of Microbiology
- 2009 Member of the American National Academy of Sciences, USA
- 2009 Doctor honoris causa, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, October
- 2010 Fellow of the Royal Society (RS), London
- 2010 Commandeur de l’Ordre Nationale du Mérite
- 2013 Balzan Prize
- 2014 FEBS, EMBO Women in Science
