Fondation Francqui - Les Colloques Internationaux

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	Ceremony of the Francqui Prize by His Royal Highness Prince Philippe at the "Fondation Universitaire" on June 9, 1999 Report of the Jury Marc Parmentier
	Report of the Jury (April 10, 1999) Beginning with his earliest work, Professor Marc Parmentier has been associated with a series of internationally recognised contributions. These include areas of cell communication via membrane receptors and signalling mechanisms implicated in this proces. The breadth and depth of these studies have influenced a number of disciplines including endocrinology, neurobiology and HIV disease. The Jury proposes to award the 1999 Francqui Prize to Professor Marc Parmentier of the Free Universitt of Brussels (French) in special consideration of his fundamental observations on the structure and function of G-protein-coupled receptors. Of special significance are Professor Parmentier's contributions to the field of co-receptors for HIV infection and their primordial role in HIV pathogenesis. Jury members : Professor Wolfgang PFLEIDERER Professor at the University of Konstanz Department of Chemistry Konstanz - Germany Chairman and Professor Fritz H. BACH Director of the Immunobiology Research Center Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Lewis Thomas Professor Harvard Medical School Boston MA - USA Professor Michael J. BERRIDGE Professor at the Babraham Institute Laboratory of Molecular Signalling Cambridge - UK Professor Keld DANO Professor at the University of Copenhagen Director of the Finsen Laboratory Rigshospitalet Denmark Professor Raymond A. DWEK Director of the Glycobiology Institute Professor at the University of Oxford UK Professor Richard EBSTEIN Professor at the Sarah Herzog Memorial Hospital Ben Gurion University of the Negev Director of the Centre for the Study Complex Diseases and Aging Jerusalem - Israel Professor Craig GERARD Professor at the Harvard Medical School Children's Hospital Perlmutter Laboratory Boston - USA Professor Jean GIRARD Professor at the University of Paris V Centre de Recherche "Endocrinologie et métabolisme" - C.N.R.S. Meudon-Belleville - France Professor William HILL Professor at the University of Edinburgh Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology UK Professor Carl H. JUNE Professor of Molecular and Cellular Engineering and Medicine University of Pennsylvania USA Professor Rolf KEMLER Professor and Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Immunobiologie Freiburg - Germany Professor J. LEAVER Professor at the University of Oxford Head of Department of Plant Sciences UK Professor Colin SANDERSON Professor at the Institute for Child Health Research TVWT - Molecular Immunology Division West Perth - Australia Professor Mark WAINBERG Professor at the Jewish General Hospital Director at the McGill University AIDS Centre Montreal, Québec - Canada * * *