Pascale Cossart, Professor and Director of the Cellular Biology and

Pascale Cossart, Professor and Director of the Cellular Biology and

Pascale Cossart, Professor and Director of the Cellular Biology and Infection Department at the Pasteur
Institute of Paris and head of the Unité des Interactions Bactéries-Cellules at that institute.
She studied Chemistry and Biology at the University of Lille, where Louis Pasteur also worked. She earned an
M.S. in chemistry from Georgetown University in 1971. After spending a year in Laos, she moved to the
Institut Pasteur in Paris in 1976, where she still works today. In 1977 Dr. Cossart was awarded a doctorate in
biochemistry from the University of Paris. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Pasteur Institute,
and in the 1980s she worked at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Member of the French Academy
of Sciences, the American Academy of Microbiology, and the German Academy of Natural Scientists
Leopoldina. Dr. Cossart is "Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur" and "Officier de l'Ordre du Mérite."
2008 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine and the 2007 Robert Koch Prize, the 2007 GlaxoSmithKline
International Member of the Year Award, the INSERM Prize in fundamental research in 2005 and the Valade
Prize from the Fondation de France in 2003. In 2000, the Swedish Society of Medicine awarded her the Louis
Pasteur Gold Medal; in 1998, she won the Richard Lounsberry Prize and the L'Oreal/UNESCO Award for
Women in Science.