Marc Lecuit#
| Membership Number: | 4934 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/biology-of-infection |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4491-1063 |
| Twitter: | @BIUPasteur |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2013 Head, Biology of Infection Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris
- Since 2013 Director, Inserm Unit 1117, Paris
- Since 2008 Head, French National Reference Center and WHO Collaborating Center Listeria, Institut Pasteur, Paris
- Since 2006 Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Paris Descartes University
- Since 2006 Deputy Head, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital, Paris
- 2019 - 2023 Director, Department of Cell Biology and Infection, Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 2008 - 2012 Group leader, Institut Pasteur (G5) and Group leader, Inserm (avenir)
- 2004 - 2005 Assistant professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital, Paris
- 2004 - 2005 Senior scientist, Pascale Cossart laboratory, Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 2002 - 2003 Post doctoral fellow, with Jeffrey I. Gordon, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO, USA
- 1997 - 2001 PhD student, with Pascale Cossart, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Fields of Scholarship
- Cell biology
- Genomics
- Molecular biology
- Virology
- Microbial pathogenesis
- Emerging infections
- Bacteriology
- Pathophysiology
- Immunology
- Epidemiology
- Clinical medicine
Honours and Awards
- 2024 ERC Proof of Concept Grant
- 2023 Member of the European Academy of Microbiology
- 2023 Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Web of Science
- 2020 Prix Eloi Collery, Académie Nationale de Médecine
- 2020 Senior Member of Institut Universitaire de France
- 2019 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2017 Member of EMBO
- 2017 Fellow of ESCMID
- 2015 Grand Prix Robert Debré
- 2015 ERC Consolidator Grant
- 2010 ERC Starting Grant
- 2010 Médaille Louis Pasteur, Académie des Sciences
- 2009 Fondation pour la recherche médicale “Equipe” award
- 2009 Ville de Paris “Equipe” award
- 2009 Grand Prix Jean Hamburger de la Ville de Paris
- 2008 Institut Pasteur “Groupe à 5 ans” award
- 2006 Inserm “Equipe avenir” award
- 2005 Franco-British Prize of the Académie des Sciences and the Royal Society
- 2004 European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Young Investigator Award
- 2003 Research Award of the College of Professors of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (CMIT)
- 2002 Philippe Foundation Award
- 2002 EMBO Long-Term Fellowship Award
- 2001 Prix Jean Valade Fondation de France
- 2000 Gold Medal of the Residency Program (Médaille d’Or du Concours de Médecine de l’Internat)
- 1999 Research Prize in Nutrition CIDEF
