Alim Louis Benabid
Alim Louis Benabid (born May 2, 1942 in La Tronche ) is a French neurosurgeon .
Life
Benabid is the son of a doctor and a nurse. He studied medicine (Dr. med. 1970) and physics ( Docteur ès sciences 1978) at the University of Grenoble I. As a postdoctoral fellow he worked with Floyd Bloom at the Salk Institute in La Jolla , California in 1979/1980 . He then received a professorship for experimental medicine at the University of Grenoble I, and in 1984 for biophysics . From 1989 to 2004 he was head of the neurosurgery department at Grenoble Hospital . He was director of the Laboratory for Neurobiophysics and head of the INSERM research group “Preclinical Neurobiology” (1988–2000) and “Preclinical Neuroscience” (2000–2007). In 2007 he retired . Since 2007 he has worked in an advisory capacity for the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), and since 2008 he has headed the board of directors of the Clinatec research institute in Grenoble.
Act
Together with computer scientists and technicians, Benabid developed a stereotactic robot ("Neuromat") for targeted stereotactic brain surgery for brain tumors and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease . Later, the procedure was partly replaced by the deep brain stimulation method (so-called brain pacemaker), which was also developed by Benabid in a leading role , which is now considered the standard surgical therapy for Parkinson's disease and whose application has been extended to numerous other diseases such as epilepsy or obsessive-compulsive disorder . Recent work by Benabid deals with the development of brain-machine interfaces (see human-machine interface ), for example in patients with paraplegia .
Awards (selection)
- 2000 Zülch Prize
- 2002 member of the Académie des sciences
- 2002 Knight of the Legion of Honor
- 2009 Neuronal Plasticity Prize (together with Apostolos Georgopoulos and Miguel Nicolelis )
- 2012 Officer of the Legion of Honor
- 2014 Lasker ~ DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (together with Mahlon R. DeLong )
- 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- 2016 European Inventor Award
- Honorary doctorates from the following universities: National University of Ireland (Galway) , University of Western Ontario , McGill University , University of Porto
- Knight of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Web links
- CV (PDF, 126 kB) at the Académie des sciences (academie-sciences.fr)
- Literature by and about Alim Louis Benabid in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release (PDF, 330 kB) from the Académie des sciences (academie-sciences.fr) from September 8, 2014 on the occasion of the Lasker ~ DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
- ^ Zülch Prize at the Max Planck Society (mpg.de); Retrieved September 9, 2014
- ^ Alim-Louis Benabid at the Académie des sciences (academie-sciences.fr); accessed on February 27, 2016
- ↑ Neuronal Plasticity Prize 2009 (PDF, 1.2 MB) at the Fondation Ipsen (fondation-ipsen.org); Retrieved September 9, 2014
- ^ Lasker ~ DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award 2014 Winners at the Lasker Foundation (laskerfoundation.org); Retrieved September 9, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benabid, Alim Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Benabid, Alim-Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French neurosurgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Tronche |