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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.
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.
- 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
A 2021 publication found Munnich to be a central researcher for describing rare genetic diseases.[8]
- 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.[9][10]
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