André Trouet is a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 scientist, and professor emeritus of the Universite Catholique de Louvain

Université catholique de Louvain

The Université catholique de Louvain, sometimes known, especially in Belgium, as UCL, is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It is located in Louvain-la-Neuve and in Brussels...

 in Louvain-la-Neuve

Louvain-la-Neuve

Louvain-la-Neuve is a planned city in the municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, situated 30 km southeast of Brussels, in the French-speaking part of the country...

. He was a student of Christian de Duve

Christian de Duve

Christian René, viscount de Duve is a Nobel Prize-winning cytologist and biochemist. De Duve was born in Thames Ditton, Surrey, Great Britain, as a son of Belgian refugees. They returned to Belgium in 1920...

, who received the 1974 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his research on the structural and functional organization of the cell. André Trouet is a member of the Scientific and Medical Advisory Board (SMAB) of the biotech company DIATOS. In 1981, he was awarded the Francqui Prize

Francqui Prize

The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgian scholarly and scientific prize, awarded each year since 1933 by the Francqui Foundation in recognition of the achievements of a young Belgian scholar or scientist...

on Biological and Medical Sciences for his work on cellular and molecular pathology.

External links

• DIATOS Scientific and Medical Advisory Board