Aziz El Amraoui#
| Membership Number: | 7316 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/progressive-sensory-disorders-pathophysiology-and-therapy/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2692-4984 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/feed/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - now Head and PI of the « Progressive Sensory Disorders, Pathophysiology and Therapy » lab, Institut de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 2008 - now Associate Professor, Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 2015 - 2019 PI, team « Sensory Cilia and Diseases », Neuroscience Department, Institut Pasteur
- 2004 - 2014 Junior Group leader within the “Genetic of Sensory Deficits” lab, Institut Pasteur, Paris.
- 1997 Hired at the Institut Pasteur as Research Assistant. Promoted Assistant Professor in 1999.
- 1995 - 1997 Post-doctoral fellow, Institut Pasteur (Pr. C Petit Lab, FAUN-Stiftung fellowship)
- 1991 - 1995 Master & PhD in Neuroscience, University Claude Bernard-Lyon I, Lyon (Pr PM Dubois lab)
Fields of Scholarship
- Usher syndrome
- Audition and vision
- Rare diseases animal modelling
- Neuroscience
- Genetic and pathophysiology of sensory disorders
- Deafness and blindness
- Pathogenesis and gene therapy
Honours and Awards
- 2024 - 2027 Member of Program committee, International Assoc. for Research Otorhinolaryngology
- 2024 - 2028 Member of the scientific committee for evaluation/recruitment of the Institut Pasteur staff scientists
- 2020 - 2023 Member of Travel Award committee, Int. Assoc. for Research Otorhinolaryngology (ARO)
- Since 2018 Member of CORLAS (Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum): Established in 1926, CORLAS is the premier international organization for Otolaryngology, over 400 members from 50 countries, with a cap of 13 regular members per nation 10 clinical and 3 basic science
- 2017 - 2019 Chair of Excellence “Charles Nicolle, Institut Pasteur”
- 2015 - 2023 Member (2015-2023) and secretary (2015-2017) of the Scientific Council of the Institut Pasteur
- 2014 - 2020 Member of the A100 General Assembly « Assemblée des 100 », Institut Pasteur
- 2006 Fond MAZET-DANET award (Fondation de France): “Physiopathology of Hereditary Deafness”
- 2005 Jean Valade award (Fondation de France): “Physiopathology of the Usher syndrome” This awards honor outstanding contributions to French medical research
- 1991 Recipient of postgraduate scholarship by The Moroccan Ministry of Education and Research (Ranked 1st for the 1991 Class, Univ cadi Ayad, Marrakech)



