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The Erasmus 2023 medal is awarded to Pr Jean-Pierre Changeux

The Academia Europaea - The Academy of Europe announces that the Erasmus Medal 2023 has been awarded to Jean-Pierre Changeux, Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France and holder of the Chair in Cellular Communications (1976-2006).

Prof. Changeux will receive the medal at the annual conference of the Academia Europaea, to be held in Munich from October 9 to 11 2023. He will give a lecture as part of the Academia Europaea - Heinz-Nixdorf Erasmus Lecture series.

The Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal is awarded to a European academic who has maintained, over an extended period, an outstanding level of international research, recognized by his or her peers.

Founded in 1988, and with over 4 500 members, Academia Europaea is a non-governmental European association acting as an academy. Its members are scientists and academics who collectively aim to promote and propagate excellence in lectures in the humanities, law, economics, social and political sciences, mathematics, medicine and all branches of the natural and technological sciences, throughout the world, in the public interest, and to promote the education of the public of all ages in the aforementioned fields in Europe.