Christine Petit

Christine Petit
Born (1948-02-04) 4 February 1948
Laignes, France
Nationality French

Christine Petit (born 4 February 1948) is a French geneticist. She holds professorships at the Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute.[1]

Biography

Petit was born in Laignes in 1948.[2] She initially studied at the Paris teaching hospital, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital and at the Pasteur Institute. She completed two pieces of post-doctoral research at the Centre for Molecular Research in Gif-sur-Yvette and another in Basel.

Petit gained professorships at Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute[1] and is a member of the Academy of Science from 14 January 2002.[3]

Petit's research has been looking successfully at the link between genes and deafness as part of her research group at INSERM "Génétique et physiologie de l’audition".[1]

Together with Karen Steel, Petit won the Royal Society Brain Prize 2012, for their pioneering work on the genetics of hearing and deafness.[4]

Prizes and honours

References

  1. 1 2 3 "ESPCI ParisTech : Conseil de perfectionnement". Espci.fr. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  2. "Biographie - Christine Petit - Génétique et physiologie cellulaire - Collège de France". College-de-france.fr. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  3. http://web.archive.org/web/20130609033813/http://www.academie-sciences.fr:80/academie/membre/Petit_Christine.htm. Archived from the original on June 9, 2013. Retrieved October 17, 2012. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. http://web.archive.org/web/20131012091240/http://royalsociety.org/news/brain-prize-2012/. Archived from the original on October 12, 2013. Retrieved October 12, 2013. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. "Christine Petit, lauréate du Brain Prize 2012". Inserm.fr (in French). Retrieved 2016-03-01.


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