With the Académie des Sciences in 2013-2014

With the Académie des Sciences in

2013 - 2014

The

Grande Médaille

of the Académie des Sciences

Created in 1997, the Grande Médaille singles out every year a scientist in the international landscape for making a decisive contribution

to the development of science, as testified both by the originality of his/her personal research projects and by its international standing

and stimulating influence, so seminal indeed as to gain proper following from researchers.

2013 laureate

•

Joan A. Steitz, a member of the

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

and professor in biochemistry

and molecular biophysics at

Yale University (United States of

America)

2014 laureate

•

Joel L. Lebowitz, a professor in

mathematics and physics at Rutgers

University (United States of America)

The

Fondation Générale de Santé

Prize for Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine

The Fondation Générale de Santé and the Académie des Sciences have been awarding since 2012 a prize to reward scientific

excellence in the field of tissue regeneration. Amounting to a sum of €100,000 (one part for the laureates, the rest for the work of

their teams), the prize rewards:

• basic research, in order to encourage the growth of scientific knowledge;

• translational and clinical research, in order to encourage the fast transfer of knowledge into applications for diagnosis and

therapy.

Through these two categories of prizes, the Fondation Générale de Santé and the Académie des Sciences support each and every

step of biomedical innovation from the investigations undertaken to deepen scientific knowledge, to the clinical applications developed

for the patients’ benefits.

Fundamental Research Laureates

•

2013: Patrick Collombat, a

research director at INSERM

(French Institute of Health and

Medical Research), Diabetes

Genetics Team, Nice

•

2014: Shahragim Tajbakhsh, the

director of the Developmental &

Stem Cell Biology Department,

Institut Pasteur, Paris

Clinical and Translational Research Laureates

•

2013 : Daniel Aberdam, directeur

de recherche à l’Inserm, unité

Immunologie, dermatologie, onco-

logie

, hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris ;

•

2014 : Jérôme Larghero, professeur

des universités et praticien hospita-

lier, directeur du département

Bio-

thérapies cellulaires et tissulaires

hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris.

In June 2014, this prize received the high patronage of the French Ministry of National Education, Higher Education

and Research.