Arnold Munnich

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.

Scientific background

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.

Distinctions

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]

Books

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]

References

^ ^a ^b "Histoire de l'Inserm".
^ « Un généticien à l’Élysée, au chevet de la recherche biomédicale », Le Monde, 23 juin 2007.
^ "Le Professeur Arnold Munnich Président de la Fondation Imagine". 11 December 2016..
^ "Prix Inserm". Archived from the original on 2018-07-30. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
^ "Institut Universitaire de France". Institut universitaire de France.
^ "Académie des sciences". Académie des sciences.
^ "Décret du 29 mars 2013 portant promotion et nomination". Légifrance.
^ Friederike Ehrhart; Egon L. Willighagen; Martina Kutmon; Max van Hoften; Leopold M. G. Curfs; Chris T. Evelo (4 May 2021). "A resource to explore the discovery of rare diseases and their causative genes". Scientific Data. 8 (1): 124. doi:10.1038/S41597-021-00905-Y. ISSN 2052-4463. PMC 8096966. PMID 33947870. Wikidata Q106708178.
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