The (Inserm, ) is the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research.
History and organisation Inserm was created in 1964 as a successor to the French National Institute of Health.
Inserm is the only public research institution solely focused on human health and medical research in France.About INSERM n.d., retrieved 16 June 2018. It is a public institution with a scientific and technical vocation under the dual auspices of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Research. Similarly to the US National Institutes of Health, Inserm conducts fundamental and translational research projects through 339 research units, run by around 13,000 scientists, including 5,100 permanent research staff members and 5,100 staff members co-affiliated with university hospitals and medicine faculties. Inserm's laboratories and research units are located all over France, mainly in the largest cities. Eighty percent of Inserm research units are embedded in research hospitals of French universities.
In 1997, Inserm founded Orphanet, a rare disease database.
Inserm's CEO is chosen by decree upon a proposal of the Ministers of Health and Research, advised by a review committee.France may be back, but the old ways persist for INSERM. The Lancet, Volume 391, Issue 10138, p 2390, retrieved 16 June 2018. The CEO since January 2019 is Gilles Bloch, a doctor and researcher specializing in medical imaging.
Ranking According to the 2019 Scimago Institutions Ranking, Inserm is the second-best research institution in the health sector (behind the NIH) and twenty-second best across all sectors.
Awards Nobel prizes Two Inserm research scientists have been awarded by the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In 1980, the French immunologist Jean Dausset received the Nobel prize (along with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell), for his work on the discovery and characterisation of the genes making the major histocompatibility complex. In 2008, the French virologist Françoise Barré-Sinoussi was awarded, together with her former mentor Luc Montagnier, for the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus.
Grand prix de l'Inserm Each year, Inserm awards three researchers in three major distinct categories. The Grand prix de l'Inserm recognizes major advancements in biology for an active researcher of the institution, the Grand prix d'honneur recognizes a French public institution's researcher whose contributions have had a major impact in science, and the Prix étranger (Foreign Prize) awards a foreign researcher for their particular contributions to biomedical research. In addition the Inserm has internal awards for engineers and young researchers.
Awardees Year Grand prix Prix d'honneur Prix international2023Nadine Cerf-Bensussan2022Olivier Delattre2021Marion Leboyer2020Dominique CostagliolaAnthony Fauci2019Eric GilsonJean-François DelfraissyMichel Sadelain2018Alain TedguiAntoine TrillerElisabetta Dejana2017Edith HeardClaude-Agnès Reynaud and Jean-Claude WeillMarie-Paule Kieny20162016 Inserm awards laureates on the INSERM website retrieved Dec 4th 2016.Jean-Laurent CasanovaCatherine BarthélémyLinda Fried2015Lauréats des prix Inserm 2015 de la recherche médicale on the INSERM website retrieved Nov 23rd 2015.Pier-Vincenzo Piazza Étienne-Émile BaulieuPeter Piot2014Lauréats des prix Inserm 2014 de la recherche médicale on the INSERM website retrieved Dec 14th 2014.Anne Dejean-Assémat William VainchenkerLeszek Borysiewicz2013Lauréats du Grand Prix 2013 de la recherche médicale on the INSERM website retrieved Nov 22nd 2013.Stanislas Dehaene Daniel LouvardOgobara Doumbo2012Lauréats du Grand Prix 2012 de la recherche médicale on the INSERM website retrieved Nov 21st 2012.Philippe Sansonetti Jean-Paul SoulillouIngrid Grummt2011Lauréats du Grand Prix 2011 de la recherche médicale on the INSERM website retrieved Dec 06th 2011.Alain Prochiantz Ethel MoustacchiSusan Gasser2010Lauréats du Grand Prix de la recherche médical on the INSERM website retrieved Nov 30th 2010Didier Raoult Eliane GluckmanDenis Duboule2009Lauréats du Grand Prix de la recherche médical on the INSERM website retrieved Nov 24th 2009Yehezkel Ben-Ari Nicole Le DouarinNora Volkow2008Lauréats du Grand Prix de la recherche médical on the INSERM website retrieved on Dec 2nd 2008Alain Fischer Alim-Louis BenabidTomas Lindahl2007Christine Petit Pierre DucimetièreMina Bissel2006Pierre CorvolKetty SchwartzZhu Chen2005Bernard Malissen at the CIML Jacques GlowinskiDavid P. Lane2004Jean-Marc EglyPierre ChambonHarvey Alter2003Miroslav Radman2002Monique Capron2001Yves Agid2000Arnold Munnich
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