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French geneticist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christine Petit (born 4 February 1948) is a French geneticist. She holds professorships at the Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute.[2]
Christine Petit | |
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| Born | 4 February 1948 Laignes, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Geneticist |
| Employer(s) | Professor, Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute |
| Awards | Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2006)[1] Kavli Prize in Neuroscience (2018) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2020) Gruber Prize in Neuroscience (2021) |
Petit was born in Laignes in 1948.[3] She initially studied at the Paris teaching hospital, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital and at the Pasteur Institute. She completed two pieces of post-doctoral research at the Centre for Molecular Research in Gif-sur-Yvette and another in Basel.
Petit holds professorships at Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute.[2] She has a member of the Academy of Science since 14 January 2002.[4]
Petit's research has explored the link between genes and deafness, with her research group at INSERM "Génétique et physiologie de l’audition".[2] She is one of the pioneers of auditory genetics.
Together with Karen Steel, Petit won the Royal Society Brain Prize 2012, for their pioneering work on the genetics of hearing and deafness.[5]
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