Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve
Élisabeth Tournier-Lasserve | |
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Born | 7 October 1954 Neurologist, university professor and researcher |
Known for | Research into the genetic disease CADASIL |
Awards | (1) Prix Lefoulon Delalande. Institut de France, Paris; (2) The Brain Prize |
Élisabeth Tournier-Lasserve (born 1954) is a French neurologist, medical geneticist, university professor and hospital practitioner in genetics. Together with three colleagues, she was the co-recipient of the Brain Prize in 2019, the world's largest brain research prize.
Training
Élisabeth Tournier-Lasserve was born on 7 October 1954. She studied medicine, including neurology, at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, a teaching hospital of the Sorbonne University in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. After obtaining a doctorate in medicine in 1984, she worked at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital for two years before doing post-doctoral work at the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Maryland, USA.[1]
Career
In 1989, Tournier-Lasserve joined the
With the geneticist
Honours and awards
The major awards and honours won by Tournier-Lasserve and her team are:[1]
- 2001 American Academy of Neurology, Frontiers in Clinical Neurosciences Prize
- 2004 Inserm Clinical Research Prize
- 2013, F.E. Bennett Memorial Lectureship.[8]
- 2015 Yvette Rouannet Prize, Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale.[9]
- 2016 Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation Lefoulon-Delalande, Paris (shared with Elisabetta Dejana).[7]
- 2019 The Brain Prize (shared with Anne Joutel, Hugues Chabriat and Marie-Germaine Bousser.[10]
- 2021 The Fulton Award, World Congress of Neurology 2021
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- ^ a b "Élisabeth Tournier-Lasserve". Institut de France: Grands Prix des Fondations. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
- ^ "F.E. Bennett Memorial Lectureship". American Neurological Association. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
- ^ "Prix de la Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale" (PDF). Fondation Reçherche Médicale. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
- ^ "The Brain Prize Winners". Lundbeckfonded. Archived from the original on 5 April 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2021.