Lucienne Chatenoud

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Lucienne Marie Chatenoud (born  August 15, 1956 in Buenos Aires ) is a French immunologist and has been a professor at the University of Paris Descartes since 1999 . As part of her research, for which she received the Pasteur-Weizmann / Servier International Prize in 2006 , she is particularly concerned with the use of therapeutic antibodies in autoimmune diseases and transplants .

Life

Lucienne Chatenoud was born in Buenos Aires in 1956 and graduated from the University of Milan in 1979 with a degree in medicine . She then specialized in nephrology at the University of Paris Descartes until 1982 . For further training in immunology, she then moved to the University of Paris Diderot , where she received her doctorate in science in 1986 with a thesis on the diagnostic and therapeutic application of monoclonal antibodies against T lymphocytes .

Lucienne Chatenoud has held various positions at the Hôpital Necker-Enfants malades in Paris since 1979 , including head of the clinical immunology laboratory since 2006. In 1999 she was appointed Professor ( Professeur Universitaire - Praticien Hospitalier , PU-PH) of Immunology at the University of Paris Descartes.

Scientific work

Lucienne Chatenoud is particularly dedicated to self-tolerance and autoimmune diseases as well as transplant immunology . One focus of her research is the application of therapeutic antibodies against T cell antigens such as CD3 .

Awards

In recognition of her research achievements, Lucienne Chatenoud was honored by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in 2005 with the Gerold and Kayla Grodsky Basic Research Scientist Award and the Mary Tyler Moore and S. Robert Levine Excellence in Clinical Research Award . Together with the American diabetologist George Eisenbarth , she received the Pasteur-Weizmann / Servier International Prize, endowed with 150,000 euros, a year later . In 2007 she was appointed Professeur Sénior at the Institut universitaire de France .

Works (selection)

  • Monoclonal Antibodies in Transplantation. New York 1995
  • Immunology. Fourth to sixth editions. Paris 2002, 2008, 2012 (as co-author)

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personal data
SURNAME Chatenoud, Lucienne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chatenoud, Lucienne Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires