Monique Adolphe
{{Short description|French cell biologist (1932–2022)}}
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Monique Adolphe (23 July 1932 – 27 June 2022) was a French scientist and researcher into the field of cell biology. She was one of the pioneers of cell culture in vitro and its applications in alternatives to animal testing. She is an Officier de la Légion d'honneur and has received several other important decorations and distinctions (see below).
Biography
Monique Adolphe was born in Paris on 23 July 1932. After her pharmacological internship at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris under Jean Cheymol's supervision in the 1950s, Monique Adolphe orientated, in 1960, her researches in the field of cell culture. With Paul Lechat she was an ardent advocate of alternative methods to animal testing by promoting the use of in vitro techniques, while recognising the limits of these methods.{{cite web
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Much of her research career has been devoted to the study of cartilage and chondrocyte biology.{{cite news
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| access-date = 2009-05-28}} As Research Director of the Laboratory of Cellular Pharmacology of the École pratique des hautes études until 1997, she trained dozens of young scientists in cell culture methods. In 1986 she founded the Société de pharmaco-toxicologie cellulaire ("Society of Cellular Pharmaco-Toxicology") (SPTC).
From 1990 to 1994 she was president of the École pratique des hautes études. On 7 January 2009 she became Chair of the Académie Nationale de Pharmacie ("National Academy of Pharmacy"){{cite web
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| title = Monique Adolphe élue présidente de l’Académie nationale de pharmacie
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| title = l'annuaire de l'Académie nationale de pharmacie
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Adolphe died in Paris on 27 June 2022, at the age of 89.[https://www.ephe.psl.eu/deces-de-monique-adolphe ″Décès de Monique Adolphe″], Press release École pratique des hautes études/Paris Sciences et Lettres University, June 2022.
Honours
- Member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine (elected 2001)
- Honorary member of the National Academy of Pharmacy (elected in 1984, Honorary since 2002); Vice-President since March 2008; Chair since January 2009
- Honorary member of the [https://www.estiv.org/about-us/ European Society for Toxicology in Vitro]
- Foreign honorary member of the Académie royale de médecine de Belgique{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.armb.be/index.php?id=1376 Monique Adolphe] on the website of the Académie royale de médecine de Belgique.
- Honorary President of the Society of cellular pharmaco-toxicology
- Honorary President of the European Society of tissue culture
- Officier de la Legion of Honour
- Commander of the Order of Merit{{cite web
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| title = Décret du 16 mai 2008 portant promotion et nomination
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| date = 2008-05-17
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- Commandeur des Palmes Académiques
Bibliography
Translator's note: Many of these works are in French.
- Pharmacologie moléculaire, Yves Cohen with Monique Adolphe (et al.), ed. Masson, 1978.
- Advances in Physiological Sciences, Vol. 10: Chemotherapy, Monique Adolphe, Publisher: Franklin Book Company, Inc, 1979. {{ISBN|0-08-023214-0}}.
- Culture de cellules animales, Monique Adolphe and Georgia Barlovatz-Meimon, ed. INSERM, 1987.
- Méthodes in vitro en pharmaco-toxicologie, Monique Adolphe and André Guillouzo, ed. INSERM, 1988, {{ISBN|2-85598-350-9}}.
- Biological Regulations of the Chondrocytes, Monique Adolphe, Publisher: CRC Pr Llc, 1992. {{ISBN|0-8493-6733-6}}.
- Culture de cellules animales, Georgia Barlovatz-Meimon and Monique Adolphe, ed. INSERM, 2003. {{ISBN|2-85598-753-9}}.
References
Translator's note: These are in French.
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External links
Translator's note: These are in French.
- [http://www.acadpharm.org/index.php?PAGE=anualpha Monique Adolphe sur le site officiel de l'Académie nationale de pharmacie]
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Category:Scientists from Paris
Category:French women biologists
Category:French pharmacologists
Category:Officers of the Legion of Honour
Category:Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études
Category:Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite
Category:Commandeurs of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques