Christine Petit

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Christine Petit
Born (1948-02-04) 4 February 1948 (age 76)
Laignes, France
NationalityFrench
OccupationGeneticist
Employer(s)Professor, Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute
AwardsLouis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2006)[1]
Kavli Prize in Neuroscience (2018)
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2020)
Gruber Prize in Neuroscience (2021)

Christine Petit (born 4 February 1948) is a French geneticist. She holds professorships at the Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute.[2]

Biography

Petit was born in Laignes in 1948.[3] 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 holds professorships at Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute.[2] She has a member of the Academy of Science since 14 January 2002.[4]

Petit's research has explored the link between genes and deafness, with her research group at INSERM "Génétique et physiologie de l’audition".[2] She is one of the pioneers of auditory genetics.

Together with Karen Steel, Petit won the Royal Society Brain Prize 2012, for their pioneering work on the genetics of hearing and deafness.[5]

Prizes and honours

References

  1. ^ a b "Professor Christine PETIT | Jeantet". 1 October 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "ESPCI ParisTech : Conseil de perfectionnement". Espci.fr. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Biographie – Christine Petit – Génétique et physiologie cellulaire – Collège de France". College-de-france.fr. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  4. ^ "Christine Petit – Les membres de l'Académie des Sciences". 14 January 2002. Archived from the original on 9 June 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
  5. ^ "Royal Society Fellow awarded the € 1 million Brain Prize 2012". The Royal Society. 12 March 2012. Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
  6. ^ "Christine Petit, lauréate du Brain Prize 2012". Inserm.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 9 June 2013. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  7. ^ National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, News from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, 3 May 2016, archived from the original on 6 May 2016, retrieved 14 May 2016.
  8. ^ "The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize". Columbia University Irving Medical Center. 14 June 2018.
  9. ^ "Neuroscience | Gruber Foundation". gruber.yale.edu.


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