Christine Petit

Christine Petit (born February 4, 1948 in Laignes , Département Côte-d'Or ) is a French physician, geneticist and molecular biologist who deals, among other things, with the genetics of sensory defects.

Christine Petit studied medicine at the University of Paris VI from 1967 to 1973 and received her doctorate in medicine from the University of Paris V in 1974 (for which she worked in the laboratory for cell genetics of the Pasteur Institute with Francois Jacob , among others ). She also received her PhD in Natural Science and Biochemistry from the University of Paris VII in 1982 . As a post-doctoral student , she worked at the CNRS Center for Molecular Genetics in Gif-sur-Yvette in 1983/84 and at the Institute for Immunology in Basel in 1982 . From 1975 she was a scientist in the laboratory for immunochemistry at the Pasteur Institute. In 1985 she moved to the Laboratory for Recombination and Gene Expression (with Jean Weissenbach and Pierre Tiollais ) and in 1991 to the Laboratory for Human Molecular Genetics (also with Weissenbach), which she headed from 1993 to 1996. From 1995 to 2001 she was head of a CNRS research group at the Laboratory for the Mammalian Genome of the Pasteur Institute. From 1998 to 2001 she headed the Biotechnology Department at the Pasteur Institute.

Christine Petit is a professor at the Pasteur Institute , where she has headed the Neuroscience Department and the Laboratory of Genetics of Sensory Defects since 2006, and at the Collège de France (Professor of Genetics and Cell Physiology).

Her laboratory identified the first genes (DFNB 1, DFNB 2) involved in congenital deafness and identified around twenty other genes. Before that, they were the first to identify a gene that was involved in congenital hearing impairment (Kallmann syndrome). They examined the pathogenesis of various forms of deafness in the mouse model.

In 2002 she became a member of the Académie des sciences (corresponding member since 1996). She is a Knight of the Legion of Honor (2002). Petit is a member of the Academia Europaea (1998) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). In 2016 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

Awards

1999 Charles-Léopold Mayer Prize of the French Académie des Sciences
2001 Ernst Jung Prize
2004 L'Oréal UNESCO Prize for Women in Science
2005 Bristol-Myers-Squibb Freedom to Discover Award in Neuroscience
2006 Louis Jeantet Prize in Geneva
2007 Grand Prix of the Institut National de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM)
2012 Brain Prize
2012 Pasarow Award
2018 Kavli Prize for Neuroscience

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Individual evidence

↑ After her résumé in English, she also has a Master of Science degree from the University of Paris XI in Orsay in 1973

personal data
SURNAME	Petit, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French medic, geneticist and molecular biologist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 4, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Laignes , Côte-d'Or department

[1] After her résumé in English, she also has a Master of Science degree from the University of Paris XI in Orsay in 1973