On Tuesday 3 June, our Scientific Director Professor Stéphanie Debette took part in the official ceremony to welcome the new members of the French Academy of Sciences elected in 2024, in the Human Biology and Medical Sciences section.
Becoming a member of the French Academy of Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences has more than 470 members, foreign associates and correspondents elected for life. An election session lasts one year and follows a well-defined process.
Each candidate is nominated solely by a member of the Academy, and half the seats are reserved for people aged under 55 on 1 January of the election year.
Divided between the two branches “Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Sciences of the Universe, and their Applications” and “Chemical, Biological and Medical Sciences, and their Applications”, the Academicians are among the most brilliant scientists in the world.
An outstanding career
Professor Stéphanie Debette is PI on several grants exploring environmental and genetic determinants of brain aging, especially vascular brain aging (ERC SEGWAY, ANR, RHU SHIVA, JPND BRIDGET, IdEx).
She is a partner on the H2020 PRESTIGE-AF project on the prevention of stroke in intracerebral haemorrhage survivors with atrial fibrillation, member of the board of directors of the World Stroke Organization.
She co-authored more than 250 publications. As ex-chair and member of the International Stroke Genetics Consortium (ISGC) and member of the research steering committee of the CHARGE consortium (cohorts for heart and aging research in genomic epidemiology), she has extensive international collaborations.
She has organized and coordinated expert panels in the context of dissections (leading to publications in Nat Genet and Lancet Neurol).
Also, since 2015 she (co-)organizes a unique annual summer school on neuroepidemiology in the omics era, Neurepiomics, held in Bordeaux, Boston, and Kyoto.
Professor Stéphanie Debette founded our institute and directed the Bordeaux Population Health research centre. She is now head of the Paris Brain Institute (CNRS/Inserm/Sorbonne University).
She won the Inserm Grand Prix in 2024 and was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences the same year.
The entire VBHI congratulates her on this remarkable achievement!
Find out more:
- Portrait of Stéphanie Debette on the French Academy of Sciences website
- Reception ceremony for the new members elected in 2024 on the French Academy of Sciences website
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