Arnold Munnich

Arnold Munnich (born 9 October 1949, in Paris), is a French paediatrician-geneticist. He is the creator and head of the department of medical genetics at the Necker-Enfants malades hospital in Paris. He was an advisor to the President of the Republic from 2007 to 2012[1] and a member of the Scientific Council of the AMMi Association.

Scientific background

After a doctorate in medicine (1979) and a science thesis (1988) at the Institut Cochin in the U129 unit then headed by Axel Kahn, he was appointed Professor of Genetics at the University of Paris-Descartes in 1989. He has been head of the Inserm unit "Genetic handicaps of the child" since 1990, succeeding Jean Frézal, where he had done his clinic (1986-1990) at the Necker Hospital in Paris.

After Nicolas Sarkozy was elected President of the French Republic, Arnold Munnich was appointed Advisor to the President for Biomedical Research and Health.[2]

Arnold Munnich has tried to use molecular genetics in paediatrics and to reconcile clinical and molecular genetics. He is the co-founder and current president of the Imagine Institute of Genetic Diseases[3] and a member of the Scientific Council of the AMMi Association.

Distinctions
  •    1994: Jean Hamburger Prize of the City of Paris
  •    1999: Jean-Pierre-Lecocq Prize from the French Academy of Sciences
  •    1999: Eloi-Collery Prize of the National Academy of Medicine
  •    2000: Grand Prix de l'Inserm[1][4]
  •    2001: Jean Bernard Prize from the Fondation pour la recherche médicale
  •    2003: Member of the Institut Universitaire de France[5]
  •    2004: Member of the French Academy of Sciences[6]
  •    2007: Winner of the European Society of Human Genetics Award
  •    2009: Winner of the Gagna & Van Heck Award of the Belgian National Research Fund
  •    2012: Winner of the British Society of Human Genetics Carter Award
  •    2013: Officier of the Légion d'Honneur[7]
  •    2014: Jean-Bernard Grand Prize of the City of Paris

Books
  •    La Rage d'espérer. La génétique au quotidien, Plon Publishing, 1999 (ISBN 2259189849)
  •    Programmé mais libre, Plon Editions, 2016 (ISBN 2259230091)

He is the author or co-author of more than 700 scientific publications.[8][9]

References
  1. "Histoire de l'Inserm".
  2. « Un généticien à l’Élysée, au chevet de la recherche biomédicale », Le Monde, 23 juin 2007.
  3. "Le Professeur Arnold Munnich Président de la Fondation Imagine". 11 December 2016..
  4. "Prix Inserm".
  5. "Institut Universitaire de France". Institut universitaire de France.
  6. "Académie des sciences". Académie des sciences.
  7. "Décret du 29 mars 2013 portant promotion et nomination". Légifrance.
  8. PubMed
  9. "Google Scholar".
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