Luc Montagnier#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 106 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Luc Montagnier passed away February 8, 2022.
Positions Held
- Full-time professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China
- Since 2005 President-CEO and Co-founder of several startups in biotechnology
- Since 2000 Professor Emeritus, Pasteur Institute.
- Since 1999 Director of Research, Emeritus, C.N.R.S.
- Since 1993 President of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, associated with UNESCO (Paris)
- 1997 - 2001 Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Queens College, CUNY, New York
- 1991 - 1997 Chief of Retrovirus Department, Pasteur Institute
- 1985 - 2000 Professor, Pasteur Institute
- 1980 - 1985 Chief of the Virology Department and Head of the Post Graduate Course of General Virology, Pasteur Institute
- 1974 - 1998 Director of Research, C.N.R.S.
- 1972 - 2000 Founder and Director of the Viral Oncology Unit at the Virology Department, Pasteur Institut
Fields of Scholarship
- Virology
- Pathophysiology of AIDS
- Discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Honours and Awards
- Honors
- 1984 Knight of the Legion of Honour
- 1986 Commander of the National Order of Merit
- 1990 Officer of the Legion of Honour
- 1993 Commander of the Legion of Honour
- 20000 Officer of the Mayo Order (Argentina)
- 2009 Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
- Prizes
- 1964 C.N.R.S. bronze medal
- 1971 Rozen prize for cancerology
- 1973 C.N.R.S. silver medal
- 1985 Gallien prize
- 1986 Louis Jeantet prize
- 1986 James Blundel prize
- 1986 Korber Foundation for European Research prize
- 1986 Albert Lasker prize
- 1987 Gairdner prize
- 1988 Japan prize
- 1993 King Faisal Price of Saudi Arabia International prize for medicine
- 1994 Amsterdam Foundation for Medicine prize of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences
- 1994 Atomic Energy Committee (CEA) prize
- 1995 Hippocrates prize of the Hellenic Society for Internal Medicine
- 1994 Neil Hamilton Fairley prize ot the Royal College of Physicians of London
- 1995 Steve Chase humanitarian prize
- 1996 Rome "Frégéné" prize
- 1997 Japanese Red Cross prize
- 1997 German Red Cross prize
- 1998 Warren Alpert prize, USA
- 1999 « Recherche et Médecine » prize (Institut des Sciences de la Santé, Paris)
- 2000 Prince of Asturias Award
- 2004 Laureate of the National Inventors Hall of Fame
- 2005 “Prestige” EDC Prize of Ecole des Dirigeants et Créateurs d’entreprises, Paris
- 2006 Prize of the “Académie des sciences médicales” of Bilbao
- 2007 Prize of the MBC News of Dubaï (Saudia Arabia)
- 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, Stockholm
- Doctor Honoris Causa
- University of Leuven (Belgium)
- University of Liege (Belgium)
- University of Salonica (Greece)
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (New York)
- American University of Paris (France)
- University of Bologna (Italia)
- University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
- University of Urbino (Italia)
- University of Montreal (Canada)
- University of Laval (Quebec)
- University of London (United Kingdom)
- University of Bucharest (Romania)
- University of Athens (Greece)
- Academician member
- 1987 Member of Academy of Sciences of Madrid
- 1988 Foreign member of Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium
- 1989 Member of the French Academy of Medicine
- 1990 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization EMBO
- 1996 Member of the French Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Honorary Member of the Academy of Medicine of Turin, Italy
