With the Académie des Sciences in 2015

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2015

Awards and Medals

Thanks to the generosity of private donors, state organisations and enterprises, the Académie des Sciences awards nearly 80 prizes

every year, in basic or applied research fields. Laureates are selected within a regulatory framework that ensures there is no conflict

of interest. The juries for prizes that amount to less than €7,500 – so-called Thematic Prizes – are composed of the members of

the relevant sections. The Grand Prizes, which exceed €15,000, fall within the province of ad hoc juries that include members from

different sections and, should the need occur, personalities from outside the Académie. In 2015, 29 Grand Prizes, of a total amount

of €1,006,450, and 36 Thematic Prizes, amounting to €156,585 in all, have been awarded by the Académie des Sciences. These

prizes have been awarded to the laureates during two solemn sessions under the Cupola of the Institut de France on 13 October and

24 November 2015

Émile Jungfleisch Award

Amounting €120,000 € (two thirds being for the work of the laureate’s team), this award is presented every two years to reward a

researcher working in a French laboratory in the field of organic chemistry or biochemistry.

2015 Laureate:

• Pierre-Jean Corringer, research director at CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), head of the

Channel Receptors unit of the Institut Pasteur, Paris.

Lamonica Prizes

Awarded since 2009, each of the two Académie des Sciences-Fondation pour la Recherche Biomédicale-PCL Lamonica Prizes in

neurology (€100,000) and oncology (€60,000) is awarded to a French or foreign scientist working in a French laboratory. Part of the

funding is to be used by the laureate, the rest of it enabling him/her to fund his/her research.

2015 Laureates

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Neurology

: Pier-Vincenzo Piazza,

director of the Magendie Neurocenter in Bordeaux;

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Oncology

: Jean-Baptiste Michel,

emeritus research director at Inserm.