Christine Petit
| Christine Petit | |
|---|---|
| Born |
4 February 1948 Laignes, France |
| Nationality | French |
Christine Petit (born 4 February 1948) is a French geneticist. She holds professorships at the Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute.[1]
Biography
Petit was born in Laignes in 1948.[2] 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 gained professorships at Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute[1] and is a member of the Academy of Science from 14 January 2002.[3]
Petit's reaearch has been looking successfully at the link between genes and deafness as part of her research group at INSERM "Génétique et physiologie de l’audition".[1]
Together with Karen Steel, Petit won the Royal Society Brain Prize 2012, for their pioneering work on the genetics of hearing and deafness.[4]
Prizes and honours
- 1999 : Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer of the Academy of Sciences
- 2004 : L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science
- 2006 : Co-winner of the Prix Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- 2007 : Grand Prix of Medical Research INSERM
- 2012 : Co-recipient with Karen Steel of the Royal Society's Brain Prize[5]
- Knight of the Legion of Honor
- Officer of the National Order of Merit
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Conseil de perfectionnement, accessed October 2012
- ↑ Christine Petit, College de France
- ↑ Christine Petit, academie-sciences.fr, accessed October 2012
- ↑ http://royalsociety.org/news/brain-prize-2012/
- ↑ Christine Petit, lauréate du Brain Prize 2012, 12 May 2012, accessed October 202