Constantino Sotelo#
| Membership Number: | 482 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Present and Previous Positions
- Chercheur Emerite CNRS at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), UMR S968, Institut de la Vision, Department of Biology of Development, F-75012 Paris (France)
- Present Position: Director of the “Catedra de Neurobiologia del Desarrollo Profesora Remedios Caro Almela”, Neurosciences Institute, Miguel Hernandez University and CSIC, San Juan de Alicante (Spain)
- 1994 - 1998 Director of the "Federative Institute of Neuroscience Pitié-Salpêtrière"
- 1959 - 1961 Scholarship CSIC, Instituto Cajal Madrid (Spain) (Prof. F de Castro). Preparation of my MD thesis at the Complutense University of Madrid
- 1991 "Directeur de Recherche Classe Exceptionnelle" CNRS (DRE)
- 1979 - 2003 Director of the INSERM Unit 106. Since 1986 the laboratory was located at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière - 47 bld de l'Hôpital - 75651 Paris Cedex 13 - France
- 1965 - 1967 Research Fellow, Department of Anatomy, Harvard Medical School (Prof. S.L. Palay)
- 1964 "Attaché de Recherche" CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research). Faculty of Sciences, University of Paris (Prof. J. Taxi)
- 1963 M.D. Neurosciences, University Complutense, Madrid (Spain)
Fields of Scholarship
- Axonal regeneration in the central nervous system
- Neuronal plasticity
Honours and Awards
- 1985 The Joannidès Prize (Académie des Sciences de Paris, France) (shared with Dr Henri Korn)
- 1993 International Prize of the IPSEN FOUNDATION on "Neuronal Plasticity" (shared with Profs. Per Andersen and Masao Ito)
- 1998 Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Sevilla (Spain)
- 2001 Cajal Medal and Krieg International Kudos (Prize delivered by the Cajal Club)
- 2001 Prize A. de Betancourt-Perronet
- 2007 Foreign Correspondent Member of the “Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales” (Spain)
