New PhD students
On the occasion of their arrival at C3M, the C3M's new PhD students will be presenting their thesis projects.
We wish them a warm welcome!
Meeting with Professor Michel Lazdunski:
We are honored to welcome Prof. Michel Lazdunski, who will be the mentor of C3M's Class of 2024 doctoral students.
Michel Lazdunski is a chemical engineer (1955), graduate of the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, PhD in Chemistry-Physics from Laval University in Quebec City (1962) in Canada in the laboratory of Ludovic Ouellet, then PhD in biochemistry (University of Marseille, 1964). He began his career at the CNRS in 1962 in Marseille where he became Professor of Biochemistry in 1965. He accepted the Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Nice in 1968. He founded the CNRS Biochemistry Centre there, which he managed until 1989, when he moved to the Sophia Antipolis science park to direct the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology (IPMC), which he had just created and which he managed until 2004. During his academic career in Nice/Sophia Antipolis, he was successively Professor of Biochemistry (Faculty of Sciences), Director of Research seconded to the CNRS and Professor of Pharmacology PU-PH (Faculty of Medicine). Michel Lazdunski was a member of the Scientific Council (1997–2001) and the Board of Directors (2001–2005) of the CNRS and the Council of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (1990–1995). He has chaired many committees including the UNECE Life Sciences Committee (Human Capital and Mobility Programme 1996–1997) and the National Coordinating Committee for Life Sciences (2001–2002).[citation needed]
He was elected a full member of the French Academy of sciences in 1991. He was appointed senior member of the Institut universitaire de France in 1991 for a five-year term, renewed in 1996.
