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molecular biologist and professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Université Libre de Bruxelles
The Université libre de Bruxelles is a French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium. It has 21,000 students, 29% of whom come from abroad, and an equally cosmopolitan staff.-Name:...
. His research interest is on trypanosomes.
He obtained a PhD in Zoology
Zoology
Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...
from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Université Libre de Bruxelles
The Université libre de Bruxelles is a French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium. It has 21,000 students, 29% of whom come from abroad, and an equally cosmopolitan staff.-Name:...
(ULB) in 1974, and an Aggregation for Higher Education in 1984. Since January 1998, he is Professor at the ULB and since October 1992, Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology
Parasitology
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. From 1993 until 1996, he was President of the Belgian Society of Protozoology
Protozoology
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In 1996, he was awarded the Francqui Prize
Francqui Prize
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on Biological and Medical Sciences for his work on molecular biology
Molecular biology
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. In 1997, he was awarded the Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology
Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology
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(UNESCO
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, Paris
Paris
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). In 2000, he was awarded the Quinquennal Prize for fundamental biomedical sciences (FNRS
NFWO
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