CURRICULUM VITAE
PATRICE COURVALIN
Institut Pasteur
Department of Microbiology
25-28 rue du Docteur Roux 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France
Phone: (33) 1 45 68 83 20
Email: patrice.courvalin@pasteur.fr
PRESENT STATUS
Professor Emeritus, Institut Pasteur
EDUCATION
1974 - State Doctorate in Medical Sciences (M.D.), Medical School, Paris
1972 - Master's degree in Human Biology, University of Sciences, Paris
1971 - Master's degree in Sciences, University of Sciences, Paris
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY AT INSTITUT PASTEUR
1983-2015 - Head of the Antibacterial Agents Unit
1983-2011 - Director of the National Reference Center for Resistance to Antibiotics
2002-2003 - Head of the Dept. of Fundamental and Medical Microbiology
2002-2003 - Member of the College of Scientific Direction
2000-2002 - Vice President of the Scientific Council
1998-2000 - Scientific Committee of the International Network of Pasteur Institutes and Associate Institutes
1992-1993 - Associate-Chairman of the Dept. of Bacteriology and Mycology
1982-1986 - Associate-Chairman of the Dept. of Bacteriology and Mycology
1977-1982 - Head of Biochemistry Laboratory, Medical Bacteriology Unit
1977-1982 - Joint-Director, with Prof. Y.A. Chabbert, of the National Reference Center for Antibiotics
1970-1974 - Head of Antibiotic Therapy Clinical Laboratory, Medical Bacteriology Unit
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
1991-1994 - Visiting Prof., Prof. M. Saier, Dept. of Biology, Univ. California, San Diego, USA
1989-1990 - Visiting Prof., Prof. D.R. Helinski, Center for Molecular Genetics, Univ. California, San Diego
1983-1989 - Antibacterial Agents Unit, Dept. of Fundamental and Medical Microbiology, Institut Pasteur
1978-1983 - Laboratory of Biochemistry, Prof. Y.A. Chabbert, Dept. of Bacteriology, Institut Pasteur
1974-1977 - Research Associate, Prof. J.E. Davies, Dept. of Biochemistry, Univ. Wisconsin, Madison, USA
1973-1974 - Oncogenic Viruses Unit, Prof. F. Cuzin, Dept. of Molecular Biology, Institut Pasteur
1970-1972 - Medical Bacteriology Unit, Prof. Y.A. Chabbert, Dept. of Bacteriology, Institut Pasteur
MAJOR NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP POSITIONS & BOARDS
Since 2016 - Founder and Director of the Interdisciplinary Course on Antibiotics and Resistance (ICARe)
2016-2018 - Member of the Scientific Committee of GARD-P
2016-2017 - Member of the Scientific Committee of CARB-X
2010-2015 - Co-chair of the European Hygiene Council
2012-2014 - Member of WHO Advisory Group on Integrated Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance
2007-2009 - Member of the CDC-NIH-FDA Committee « Public Health Action Plan to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance »
2007-2009 - Member of the FAO-WHO-OIE Committee on « Critically Important Antibiotics »
2005-2007 - Member of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) Roster of Scientists, Stockholm, Sweden
2005-2007 - Chairman WHO Committee « Critically Important Antibacterial Agents for Human Medicine »
1999-2007 - Member of Antimicrobial Resistance Scientific Committee, Swiss National Science Foundation
2002-2004 - Chair of the Bacteriology Section of the International Union of Microbiological Societies
2000-2004 - Member of the Committee for International Affairs of the American Academy of Microbiology
1999-2004 - Expert in the Area of Antibiotics to the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
1997-2003 - Co-coordinator for France of the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System
1998-1999 - Chairman of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Division, American Society for Microbiology
EDITORIAL BOARDS (SELECTION)
Since 2020 - Frontiers in Microbiology
2011-2015 - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
1989-2013 - Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
2001-2010 - Current Drug Targets – Infectious Disorders
2000-2010 - International Journal of Medical Microbiology
1995-2002 & 2006-2009 - The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
1998-2006 - Drug Resistance Updates
1998-2006 - Current Opinion in Microbiology
1998-2006 - Emerging Infectious Diseases - Associate Editor
1995-2006 - Microbial Drug Resistance
1998-2004 - Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology
1982-2004 - Journal of Antibiotics
1995-2003 - Clinical Microbiology and Infection
1988-1992 - The Journal of General Microbiology
MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
American Society for Microbiology, Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, British Society for General Microbiology, European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, French Society for Infectious Diseases, French Society for Microbiology
SCIENTIFIC PRIZES & AWARDS
2016 - Sanofi-Institut Pasteur Award
2013 - Gold Medal of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2012 - BD Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology of the American Society for Microbiology
2007 - Jean Valade Award of the Fondation de France
2004 - Thomson-ISI Award « French Microbiologist Citation Laureate »
2004 - Grand Prix of the French National Academy of Sciences
2001 - ESCMID Award for Excellence in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
1998 - ISI Award « French Citation Laureate » 1981-1998
1997 - Hoechst Marion Roussel Award of the American Society for Microbiology
1997 - Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Biomedical Research Grant in Infectious Diseases
1995 - Hamao Umezawa Award of the International Society for Chemotherapy
1994 - Louis Garrod Award of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
1989 - Jacques Monod Award of the Fondation de France
1983 - Thérèse Lebrasseur Award of the Fondation de France
1974 - Paris School of Medicine Award
ACADEMIES & HONORARY DEGREES
2017 - Elected member of the Academia Europaea
2015 - Elected member of the European Academy for Microbiology
2009 -Elected member of the European Academy of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
2009 - Elected member of the French National Academy of Technologies
2001 - Honorary Member of the Australian Society for Antimicrobials
1997 - Elected member of the American Academy of Microbiology
1997 - Elected member of the Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
1983 - Elected member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Saragossa, Spain
DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA
2013 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
2008 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Technical University of Denmark.
2002 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Faculty of Medicine, University of Mons, Hainaut, Belgium.
2001 - Doctor Honoris Causa, University of El Bosque, Bogota, Columbia.
DISTINGUISHED HONORS
2009 - Chevalier dans l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur
PUBLICATIONS
Articles in international peer-reviewed journals: 465
Invited reviews in international peer-reviewed journals: 52
Other publications: 79
Books: 9
Chapters in monographs or books: 69
Patents: 2
H index: 97
Citations: ca. 33,000