Arnaud Echard#
Membership Number: | 6523 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 2023 |
Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Homepage(s): | https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/membrane-traffic-and-cell-division/ |
ORCID: | 0000-0001-7402-1398 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2015 Head and PI of the Membrane Traffic and Cell Division Lab. Institut Pasteur, Paris
- Since 2011 CNRS Research Director 1st class (since 2016) and 2nd class (2011-2016)
- 2010 - 2015 Junior Group Leader of the Membrane Traffic and Cell Division 5-year Lab. (G5) Institut Pasteur, Paris
- Since 2006 Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, France (Full Professor in 2018)
- 2003 - 2009 PI within the Molecular mechanisms of intracellular transport Lab, Institut Curie, Paris
- 2003 Hired at the CNRS as permanent researcher 2nd class. Promoted researcher 1st class in 2007
- 2000 - 2003 Post-doctoral fellow, UCSF, San Francisco, USA (Pr. Pat. O'Farrell Lab, HSFP fellowship)
- 1997 - 2000 PhD. University of Paris XI, Institut Curie, Paris (supervisor: Pr. B. Goud)
Fields of Scholarship
- Cytokinesis
- Cell division
- Oxidoreduction
- ESCRT machinery
- Actin cytoskeleton
- Membrane Trafficking and remodeling
Honours and Awards
- 2019 - 2023 President (2021-2023) and member (2019-2023) and of the Scientific Council of the Institut Pasteur
- 2012 - 2023 3 times Excellence Award ("Prime d’Encadrement et Recherche”) from CNRS
- 2018 Gustave Roussy Prize from the French Academy of Sciences
- 2012 - 2018 President (2015 - 2018) and Vice-President (2012 - 2015) of the French Society of Cell Biology representing >2000 members and 380 labs https://sbcf.fr/en
- 2017 Georges Zermati Prize from Foundation of France
- 2016 IXCore foundation Prize
- 2015 Recipient of the Dr. ST Huang-Chan Memorial medal, University of Hong-Kong, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
- 2011 Schlumberger Foundation for Research and Education Prize
- 2000 N. Demassieux Thesis Prize: Best Biological Science from the Universities of Paris