CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Name: BENVENISTE
First name: Jacques
Date and place of birth: 12 March 1935, 75009 Paris, France
Marital status: Married, 5 children

 

ACADEMIC CURRICULUM
  • Baccalauréat, 1951
  • Medical study at Faculté de Médecine de Paris, 1953-1960

    • University degrees:

  • Medical doctor, Faculté de Médecine de Paris, Thesis silver medal, 1967
  • Chef de Clinique, Faculté de Médecine de Paris, 1967-1969

    • Hospital titles:

  • Externe des Hôpitaux de Paris, 1956
  • Interne des Hôpitaux de la Région de Paris, 1959
  • Interne des Hôpitaux de Paris, 1961
  • Assistant des Hôpitaux de Paris, 1967

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    RESEARCH POSITIONS

  • Part-time researcher at Institut de Recherche sur le Cancer, CNRS, Villejuif (Dr. J.C. Salomon and Prof. W. Bernhardt), 1965-1969
  • Research Associate, Department of Experimental Pathology, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, California (Drs C.G. Cochrane and F.J. Dixon), 1969-1972 (Fellowship from International Center for Research on Cancer)
  • Chargé de Recherches, INSERM Unit 25, Hôpital Necker, Paris, 1973
  • Head of the Research Laboratory on Immediate Hypersensitivity and Immunopathology, INSERM Unit 25, 1977
  • Directeur de Recherche 2ème Classe INSERM, INSERM Unit 131, Clamart, 1978
  • Head of INSERM Unit 200: Immunology of Allergy and Inflammation, Clamart, 1980
  • Directeur de Recherche 1ère Classe INSERM, 1984
  • Head of Digital Biology Laboratory, Clamart, 1995

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    MAIN SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Discovery of "Platelet-Activating Factor", 1970
  • Author of the controversial article on the "memory of water", Nature, 1988, which lead to the recent development of Digital Biology.

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    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

    A selection from about 300, including 26 publications in J IMMUNOL from 1971 to 1994.