Inserm
{{Short description|Biomedical French research institute}}
{{Expand French|Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale|date=February 2020|topic=sci}}
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The {{Lang|fr|Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale|italic=no}} (Inserm, {{IPA|fr|insɛʁm}}) is the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research.
History and organisation
Inserm was created in 1964 as a successor to the French National Institute of Health.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}}
Inserm is the only public research institution solely focused on human health and medical research in France.[https://www.inserm.fr/en/about-inserm About INSERM] n.d., retrieved 16 June 2018. It is a public institution with a scientific and technical vocation under the dual auspices of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Research.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}} Similarly to the US National Institutes of Health, Inserm conducts fundamental and translational research projects through 339 research units, run by around 13,000 scientists, including 5,100 permanent research staff members and 5,100 staff members co-affiliated with university hospitals and medicine faculties. Inserm's laboratories and research units are located all over France, mainly in the largest cities. Eighty percent of Inserm research units are embedded in research hospitals of French universities.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}}
In 1997, Inserm founded Orphanet, a rare disease database.{{Cite journal |last=Rath |first=Ana |last2=Olry |first2=Annie |last3=Dhombres |first3=Ferdinand |last4=Brandt |first4=Maja Miličić |last5=Urbero |first5=Bruno |last6=Ayme |first6=Segolene |date=May 2012 |title=Representation of rare diseases in health information systems: The orphanet approach to serve a wide range of end users |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/humu.22078 |journal=Human Mutation |volume=33 |issue=5 |pages=803–808 |doi=10.1002/humu.22078|doi-access=free }}
Inserm's CEO is chosen by decree upon a proposal of the Ministers of Health and Research, advised by a review committee.[https://www.thelancet.com/action/showCitFormats?pii=S0140-6736%2818%2931318-7&doi=10.1016%2FS0140-6736%2818%2931318-7 France may be back, but the old ways persist for INSERM.] The Lancet, Volume 391, Issue 10138, p 2390, retrieved 16 June 2018. The CEO since January 2019 is Gilles Bloch, a doctor and researcher specializing in medical imaging.{{Cite web|date=2019-01-04|title=Gilles Bloch, Inserm Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, takes office|url=https://presse.inserm.fr/en/francais-prise-de-fonctions-de-gilles-bloch-president-directeur-general-de-linserm/33370/|access-date=2020-12-24|website=Inserm|language=en-US}}
Ranking
According to the 2019 Scimago Institutions Ranking, Inserm is the second-best research institution in the health sector (behind the NIH) and twenty-second best across all sectors.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scimagoir.com/rankings.php?sector=all|title=Scimago Institutions Rankings|website=www.scimagoir.com|access-date=2019-07-26}}
Awards
=[[Nobel Prize|Nobel prizes]]=
Two Inserm research scientists have been awarded by the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In 1980, the French immunologist Jean Dausset received the Nobel prize (along with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell), for his work on the discovery and characterisation of the genes making the major histocompatibility complex. In 2008, the French virologist Françoise Barré-Sinoussi was awarded, together with her former mentor Luc Montagnier, for the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus.
=Grand prix de l'Inserm=
Each year, Inserm awards three researchers in three major distinct categories. The Grand prix de l'Inserm recognizes major advancements in biology for an active researcher of the institution, the Grand prix d'honneur recognizes a French public institution's researcher whose contributions have had a major impact in science, and the Prix étranger (Foreign Prize) awards a foreign researcher for their particular contributions to biomedical research. In addition the Inserm has internal awards for engineers and young researchers.
==Awardees==
Notes and references
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.inserm.fr/en/}} (English)
{{Expand French|Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale|date=October 2016}}
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Category:Medical and health organizations based in France