Pascale Cossart is an award-winning bacteriologist at the Pasteur Institute of Paris, and the foremost authority on Listeria monocytogenes, a deadly and common food-borne pathogen responsible for encephalitis, meningitis, bacteremia, gastroenteritis, and other diseases.
Education
Cossart earned a Bachelor of Surgery and Master of Surgery from Lille University in 1968, and an Master of Surgery in chemistry from Georgetown University in 1971. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in biochemistry at the University of Paris in 1977 (University Paris Diderot). She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Pasteur Institute.
Career
She is currently a Professor and Head of the Unité des Interactions Bactéries Cellules at the Pasteur Institute. She was awarded the Balzan Prize for Infectious Diseases: Basic and Clinical Aspects in 2013.
Achievements
Membership
Royal Society; German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. French Academy of Sciences.
Commander of the National Order of Merit; Robert Koch Prize; L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science; Balzan Prize
Lounsbery Award; Balzan Prize; Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology; Koch Prize
The International Balzan Prize Foundation awards four annual monetary prizes to people or organizations who have made outstanding achievements in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, culture, as well as for endeavours for peace and the brotherhood of man.; The Carlos J. Finlay Prize is a biennial scientific prize sponsored by the Government of Cuba and awarded since 1980 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to people or organizations for their outstanding contributions to microbiology (including immunology, molecular biology, genetics, etc.) and its applications.
The International Balzan Prize Foundation awards four annual monetary prizes to people or organizations who have made outstanding achievements in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, culture, as well as for endeavours for peace and the brotherhood of man.; The Carlos J. Finlay Prize is a biennial scientific prize sponsored by the Government of Cuba and awarded since 1980 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to people or organizations for their outstanding contributions to microbiology (including immunology, molecular biology, genetics, etc.) and its applications.