Biography and publications | Jean-Pierre Changeux - Cellular communications

Biography

Born April 6 1936, Domont (Val-d'Oise), France. Married, one child : Thomas.

Education

1955 : École normale supérieure (rue d'Ulm, Paris)
1956-1957 : Bachelor's degree in natural sciences, University of Paris
1958 : Diplôme d'études supérieures (summa cum laude and congratulations from the jury)
1958 : Agrégé des sciences naturelles (awarded first place)
1964 : Doctorat d'État in natural sciences, Paris (summa cum laude), under the supervision of Pr Jacques Monod, Institut Pasteur

Higher education and research

1958 : Agrégé-préparateur of Zoology, École normale supérieure
1965-1966 : Postdoctoral fellow, Universiy of California, Berkeley
1966-1967 : Assistant visiting professor Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York
1967 : Assistant Director of Jacques Monod's Chair of Molecular Biology at the Collège de France
1972 : Director of the Molecular Neurobiology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris
1976-2006 : Professor at the Collège de France, chair Cellular communications
1975 : Professor, Institut Pasteur

Administrative and scientific responsibilities

1969-1977 : Member of the scientific council of the concerted action on biological membranes of the Délégation générale à la recherche scientifique et technique (DGRST)
1974-1979 : Member of Commission 6 of the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm)
1978-1983 : Member of the Board of Directors of the Pharmacologists' Association
1977-1983 : President of the concerted action " Dynamique du Neurone " (DGRST)
1979-200 : Vice-Chairman of the Scientific Board of the Fyssen Foundation
1980-1982 : Member of Commission 22 of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), " Interactions Cellulaires "
1981-1982 : Member of the life sciences sector committee (CNRS)
1983-1987 : Chairman of the Inserm Scientific Council
1987-1989 : Member of the Higher Council for Research and Technology (Conseil supérieur de la recherche et de la technologie)
1989-1992 : Member of the Institut Pasteur Scientific Advisory Board
1989-1992 : President of the Société des Neurosciences
Since 1989 : Chairman of the Interministerial Commission for the Conservation of National Artistic Heritage
1988-1992 : President of the concerted action " Sciences de la Cognition " of the Ministry of Scientific and Technical Research and the Ministry of National Education
1990-1992 : Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Human Frontiers Science Program
1990-1992 : Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Science Foundation (ESF), Life Sciences
1991-1992 : Member of the Council for the European Development of Science and Technology (CODEST)
1992-1998 : Chairman of the French National Consultative Ethics Committee for Health and Life Sciences
1998-2003 : Member of the Atomic Energy Committee
2000-2005 : Member of the Institut Pasteur Board of Directors
Since 2007 : Chairman of Institut Pasteur's Scientific Vigilance Committee
Since 2007 : Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Museums Agency, France-Muséums

Learned societies and academies

1974 : Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina zu Halle (Pharmacology)
1976 : Turin Academy of Medicine
1983 : National Academy of Sciences, Washington (USA) (foreign associate)
1984 : Honorary member of Neurosciences Research Program, MIT and Rockefeller University (USA)
1985 : Honorary member of the Japanese Biochemical Society, Sendai, Japan
1985 : Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, (Sweden) (foreign member)
1988 : Académie des sciences, Paris
1988 : Académie royale de médecine de Belgique (Bruxelles) (honorary foreign member)
1988 : Academia Europaea (founding member)
1988 : Honorary member of the American Neurology Association
1990 : Honorary member of University College London
1991 : Honorary foreign member of the Belgian Neurological Society, Brussels
1994 : American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, (USA) (foreign member)
1996 : Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences, Bucharest (foreign member)
2000 : Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, Washington, (USA) (foreign associate)
2001 : Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venezia (Italy)
2004 : Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (foreign member associate)
2004 : European Academy of Sciences, Bruxelles (member), 2004
Member of European Molecular Biology Organization

Scientific awards

1977 : Alexandre Joannidès Prize, Académie des Sciences, Paris
1978 : Gairdner Foundation Award, Toronto, Canada
1983 : Richard Lounsbery Prize, National Academy of Sciences, Washington (USA) and Académie des sciences, Paris
1983 : Wolf Foundation Prize in Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel,
1983 : Broquette-Gonin Prize, French Academy, forNeuronal Man
1985 : Ciba Geigy Drew Award in Biomedical Research, Madison
1986 : F. O. Schmitt medal and prize, Neuroscience Research Program, Rockefeller University, New York
1988 : Rita Levi-Montalcini Award, Fidia Research Foundation, Washington
1990 : Bristol-Myers-Squibb Award in Neuroscience, New York
1991 : Carl-Gustaf Bernhard medal, Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm
1992 : Science for Art, Prix d'Honneur LVMH, Paris
1992 : International Prize Amedeo e Frances Herlitzka for Physiological Sciences, Torino
1992 : Gold Medal, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris
1993 : Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine, Geneva
1993 : Thudichum medal, Biochemical Society, London
1994 : Goodman and Gilman Award in drug receptor pharmacology, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Anaheim, California
1994 : Camillo Golgi medal, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome
1994 : Sir Hans Krebs medal, FEBS, Helsinki
1996 : Max-Delbrück medal, in Molecular Medicine, Berlin
1997 : Grand prix de la Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale, Paris
1997 : Jean-Louis Signoret prize in Neuropsychology, Paris
1998 : Emanuel Merck prize in Chemistry, Darmstadt
1998-1999 : Linus Pauling medal, 1998/1999, Stanford, USA
1999 : Eli Lilly award in preclinical Neuroscience, European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, London
2000 : Langley Award for basic research on nicotine and tobacco, Washington
2001 : Balzan Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience, Bern
2002 : American Philosophical Society's Karl Spencer Lashley Award in neuroscience, Philadelphia
2005 : Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, Rockefeller University, New York
2006 : Dart/NYU Biotechnology Award in Basic Biotechnology, New York
2006 : Golden Eurydice Award from International Forum of Biophilosophy, Brussels
2007 : National Academy of Sciences Award in the Neurosciences, Washington
2008 : Neuronal plasticity prize, IPSEN Foundation, Geneva
2008 : CINP Pioneer Award, Munich
2018 : Albert-Einstein World Award of Science

Honorary distinctions

2005 : Grand officier dans l'ordre de la Légion d'honneur
1995 : Grand-croix dans l'ordre national du Mérite
1994 : Commandeur dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Commandeur dans l'ordre des Palmes académiques
Doctor honoris causa from the universities of : Turin (Italy, 1989) ; Dundee (Scotland, 1992) ; Geneva (Switzerland, 1994) ; Stockholm (Sweden, 1994) ; Liège (Belgium, 1996) ; École polytechnique fédérale of Lausanne (Switzerland, 1996) ; University of Southern California (Los Angeles, USA, 1997) ; Bath (UK, 1997) ; Montreal (Canada, 2000) ; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, 2004) ; Ohio (Columbus, USA, 2007)

Honorary lectures

1974 : Smith, Kline and French Lectures in Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine (USA)
1974 : Third Louis B. Flexner Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA)
1975 : Fourth FEBS Ferdinand Springer Lecture
1977 : William Draper Harkins Memorial Lecture, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago (USA)
1978 : Windsor C. Cutting Memorial Lecture, Department of Pharmacology, Stanford University (USA)
1978 : John Krantz Memorial Lecture, Department of Pharmacology, Baltimore (USA)
1980 : Harvey Lecture, Rockfeller University, New York (USA)
1980 : Wolfgang Pauli Vorlesungen Lecture, E. T. H. Zurich (Switzerland)
1982 : Otto Loewi Memorial Lecture, Department of Pharmacology, New York University (USA)
1985 : Pfizer Lecture, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (Canada)
1985 : Woodward Lecture, Yale University
1986 : Wittaker Distinguished Lecture in Brain Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (USA)
1986 : First Walter Dandy lecture, Baltimore (USA)
1987 : Warner-Lambert Lecture,^17thAnnual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans (USA)
1990 : First Trends in Pharmacological Sciences Lecture, FASEB meeting, Washington (USA)
1990 : Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky Lectures, Rehovot (Israel)
1991 : Third Jean Brachet Memorial Lecture, Brussels (Belgium)
1991 : Opening lecture European Neuroscience Association meeting, Cambridge (U.K.)
1992 : Inaugural lecture EUROMEDECINE 92, Montpellier (France)
1993 : Special lecture dedicated to the memory of Prof. Shosaku Numa, New York Academy of Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo (Japan)
1993 : Special lecture^11thEuropean Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Accademia Cusano, Bressanone (Italy)
1993 : Giuseppe Moruzzi lectures, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy
1995 First Jus lecture on Ethics and Neurosciences, Toronto
1995 : Berlin Lecture in Molecular Medicine, Berlin (FRG)
1996 : Sterling drug Lecture, Boston University School of medicine (USA)
1996 : Flynn Lecture, Yale University
1996 : Cass Memorial Lecture, Dundee University, Scotland
1996 : Bruno Ceccarelli Lecture, Milan (Italy)
1996 : First Cavalieri-Ottolenghi Lecture, Turin (Italy)
1997 EMBO Lecture : British Brain Research Association meeting, Liverpool (UK)
1997 : Seventh annual Edmond Fischer Lecture, Seattle (USA)
1998 : Ralph I. Dorfman Memorial Lecture, Stanford Univ. School of Medicine (USA)
1998 : Ferrier Lecture, The Royal Society, London (UK)
1998 : Emanuel Merck-Vorlesung, Technische Universität, Darmstadt (FRG)
1998-1999 : Linus Pauling lecture, Stanford (USA)
1999 : F. C. Donders Lectures on cognitive neuroscience, Nijmegen (NL)
1999 : Burroughs-Wellcome lecture in Pharmacology, Washington, (USA)
1999 First Mind Brain and Behavior lectures, Harvard University, (USA)
1999 : Carl Friedrich Von Siemens Foundation lecture, Munich (FRG)
2000 : Friday evening lecture, Woods Hole (USA)
2001 : Annual Sterling lecture, Albany Medical College, New York
2002 : Schueler distinguished lecture in pharmacology, New Orleans, (USA)
2002 : Wenner-Gren distinguished lecture, Stockholm (Sweden)
2003 : The Kenneth Myer Lecture, Melbourne (Australia)
2004 : The Heller Lecture Series in Computational Neuroscience, Institute of Life Sciences, Jerusalem (Israel)
2005 : Jerry A. Weisbach memorial lecture, Rockefeller University
2007 : Benjamin W. Zwelfach Memorial Lecture, University of California San Diego (USA)
2008 : American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics distinguished lecture Centennial meeting on ligand-gated ion channels San Diego (USA)

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Selected bibliography

Découvrir

Changeux J.-P., Découvrir, Paris, Gallimard/Collège de France, coll. « À voix haute », 2009.
Du vrai, du beau, du bien

Changeux J.-P., Du vrai, du beau, du bien, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2008, 544 p.
L'Homme artificiel

Changeux J.-P. (dir.), L'Homme artificiel, Paris, Odile Jacob, coll. « Colloque annuel du Collège de France », 2007, 320 p.
Les Passions de l'âme

Changeux J.-P., Les Passions de l'âme, Odile Jacob, 2006.
La Lumière au siècle des Lumières et aujourd’hui

Changeux J.-P., La Lumière au siècle des Lumières et aujourd’hui, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2005.
Gènes et Culture

Changeux J.-P. (dir.), Gènes et Culture, Paris, Odile Jacob, coll. « Colloque annuel du Collège de France », 2003, 303 p.
La Vérité dans les sciences

Changeux J.-P. (dir.), La Vérité dans les sciences, Paris, Odile Jacob, coll. « Colloque annuel du Collège de France », 2003, 240 p.
L'Homme de vérité

Changeux J.-P., L'Homme de vérité, 2002, Odile Jacob, Paris
La Nature et la règle. Ce qui nous fait penser

Changeux J.-P., La Nature et la règle. Ce qui nous fait penser, avec Paul Ricœur 1998, Odile Jacob, Paris
Une même éthique pour tous ?

Changeux J.-P. (dir.), Une même éthique pour tous ?, Paris, Odile Jacob, 1997, 228 p.
Raison et Plaisir

Changeux J.-P., Raison et Plaisir, 1994, Odile Jacob, 1994, 226 p.
Fondements naturels de l'éthique

Changeux J.-P., Fondements naturels de l'éthique (sous la direction), 1993, Odile Jacob, Paris
Matière à pensée

Changeux J.-P. et Connes A., Matière à pensée, Paris, Odile Jacob, 1989, 272 p.
L’Homme neuronal

Changeux J.-P., L’Homme neuronal, Paris, Fayard, 1983, 420 p.