Scientifc Grand Prize
Created in 2002, the Grand Prix Scientifique is awarded annnually to a scientist who has made a major contribution to cardiovascular physiology, biology or medicine.
Taken in the broadest sense, this definition encompasses genetics, epidemiology, physiology, clinical practice, imaging, therapeutics, pharmacology and cardiovascular system development.
The Grand Prix Lefoulon-Delalande Award is accompanied by a grant of €600,000
Scientific
Committee members
Prof. Kali ALITALO professeur honoraire de cardiologie à l’université de Lille, ancien président de la Société Européenne de Cardiologie
Prof. Michel BERTRAND professeur honoraire de cardiologie à l’université de Lille, ancien président de la Société Européenne de Cardiologie
Prof. Catherine BOILEAU professeur des universités-praticien hospitalier, directrice du département de génétique à l’hôpital Bichat et directrice de l’unité Inserm 1148 (Paris)
Prof. Margaret BUCKINGHAM de l’Académie des sciences, professeur honoraire à l’Institut Pasteur, présidente du Conseil scientifique de la fondation Lefoulon-Delalande
Prof. Alain CARPENTIER membre de l’Académie des sciences, président honoraire du Conseil scientifique de la fondation Lefoulon-Delalande
Prof. Jean-Claude DAUBERT professeur honoraire de cardiologie à l’université de Rennes 1, ancien président de la Société Française de Cardiologie
Prof. Anne EICHMANN professeur à l’Université de Yale (USA), chef d’équipe au Centre de Recherche Paris-Cardiovasculaire (PARCC) à l’Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou (Paris)
Prof. Giovanni de GAETANO directeur du département Epidémiologie et Prévention à l’IRCCS Institut Neurologique Méditerranéen NEUROMED de Pozzilli (Italie)
Prof. Michel LAZDUNSKI membre de l’Académie des sciences, professeur émérite de l’Université Côte d’Azur
Prof. Mona NEMER professeur à l’université d’Ottawa et conseillère scientifique en chef du Canada, membre de la société Royale du Canada
Prof. Denis NOBLE professeur honoraire de physiologie cardiovasculaire à l’université d’Oxford, membre de la Royal Society
Prof. David D. SABATINI membre associé de l’Académie des sciences, professeur émérite à l’université de New York (USA)
Prof. Hugh WATKINS professeur de médecine cardiovasculaire à l’Université d’Oxford et directeur du centre d’excellence du British Heart Foundation
Prof. Michel BERTRAND
Emeritus Professor of Cardiology at the University of Lille, and former President of the European Society of Cardiology
Prof. Catherine BOILEAU
University Professor, Hospital Practitioner, Chair of the Genetics Department at Bichat Hospital and Director of Inserm Unit 1148 (Paris)
Prof. Margaret BUCKINGHAM
Member
of the French Academy of Sciences, Emeritus Professor at the Pasteur Institute
and Chair of the Lefoulon-Delalande Foundation Scientific Council
Prof. Alain CARPENTIER
Member of the French Academy of Sciences and Emeritus Chair of the Lefoulon-Delalande Foundation Scientific Council
Prof. Jean-Claude DAUBERT
Emeritus Professor of Cardiology at the University of Rennes 1, and former President of the French Society of Cardiology
Prof. Anne EICHMANN
Professor at Yale University (USA) and Team Leader in the Paris Cardiovascular Research Center (PARCC) at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital (Paris)
Prof. Giovanni de GAETANO
Head of the Epidemiology and Prevention Department at the IRCCS NEUROMED Scientific Institute for Research and Healthcare, Pozzilli (Italy)
Prof. Michel LAZDUNSKI
Member of the French Academy of Sciences and Emeritus Professor at Côte d’Azur University, Nice
Prof. Mona NEMER
Professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada’s Chief Science Advisor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Prof. Denis NOBLE
Emeritus Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology at Oxford University and Fellow of the Royal Society
Prof. David D. SABATINI
Emeritus Professor of Cardiology at the University of Lille, former President of the European Society of Cardiology, Associate Member of the French Academy of Sciences and Professor Emeritus at New York University (USA)
Prof. Hugh WATKINS
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Oxford University and Director of the British Heart Foundation Centre for Research Excellence
Past
recipients
The 2022 Grand Prix Scientifique
The Lefoulon Delalande Foundation-Institut de France 2021 Grand Prix Scientifique award of €600,000
The 2021 Grand Prix Scientifique
The Lefoulon Delalande Foundation-Institut de France 2021 Grand Prix Scientifique award of €600,000 is shared equally between two winners.
Gordon Keller
Christine Mummery
The 2020 Grand Prix Scientifique Award not presented due to the COVID 19 pandemic.
The 2019 Grand Prix Scientifique
Professors Peter Schwartz (Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy) and Pedro Brugada (University Hospital Brussels, Belgium), for their research work on cardiac arrhythmias involved in sudden cardiac death.
The 2018 Grand Prix Scientifique
Professors Catherine Boileau (Hôpital Bichat AP-HP, Université Paris Diderot, Paris), Helen Hobbs (University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, USA) and Nabil Seidah (Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, Canada), for their research work leading to identification of the PCSK9 protein, a major regulator of cholesterol metabolism.
The 2017 Grand Prix Scientifique
Professor Alain Cribier of Rouen University Hospital-Charles Nicolle for his body of research work, and more specifically for the work that led to implantation of the first aortic valve by cardiac catheterization.
The 2016 Grand Prix Scientifique
Professors Elisabetta Dejana of the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology Foundation (Milan, Italy) and Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve of UFR de Médecine Paris Diderot for their research work on cerebral vascular system development and anomalies.
The 2015 Grand Prix Scientifique
The 2015 Award was presented to Dr. Albert Starr (Knight Cardiovascular Institute at Oregon Health & Science University) for scientific work of international value that has helped revolutionize cardiovascular surgery.
The 2014 Grand Prix Scientifique
The 2014 Award was presented to Adolfo J. de Bold of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute for scientific work of international value that has helped revolutionize cardiovascular physiology.
The 2013 Grand Prix Scientifique
The 2013 Grand Prix Scientifique was awarded to Carlo Patrono of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Rome) and Garret A. FitzGerald of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).
The 2012 Grand Prix Scientifique
The 2012 Lefoulon-Delalande Grand Prix Scientifique was awarded to William G. Kaelin, Peter J. Ratcliffe, and Gregg L. Semenza for their discovery of the mechanisms by which tissues and organs adapt to oxygen demand.
The 2011 Grand Prix Scientifique
The 2011 Grand Prix Scientifique was awarded to Professor Valentin Fuster of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City for his work on atherothrombosis and the role of blood platelets in artery blockage.
The 2010 Grand Prix Scientifique
The 2010 Grand Prix Scientifique was awarded to French researcher Michel Haïssaguerre for his revolutionary discoveries in the field of cardiac arrhythmias, and more specifically for his work on the causes and treatment of atrial and ventricular fibrillation.
The 2009 Grand Prix Scientifique
Eric N. Olson (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (Etats-Unis), a reçu le Grand Prix scientifique 2009 de la Fondation Lefoulon-Delalande – Institut de France, d’un montant de 500 000 euros pour ses travaux sur les mécanismes d’action des gênes de régulation responsables du développement du cœur et qui ouvrent de nouvelles cibles thérapeutiques dans les maladies du cœur.
The 2008 Grand Prix Scientifique
In 2008, the Foundation presented its €500,000 award to Professor Dario DiFrancesco of the Department of Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology at the Laboratory of Molecular Physiology and Neurobiology of the University of Milan for his research work leading to the discovery of the ion channels involved in the regulation of heart rhythm.
The 2007 Grand Prix Scientifique
In 2007, the Foundation presented its €500,000 award to Professors Christine and Jonathan Seidman of the Department of Medicine and Genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston for their research work leading to the discovery of the genes involved in certain acquired or congenital heart diseases.
The 2006 Grand Prix Scientifique
In 2006, the Foundation presented its €500,000 award to Professors Francis Fontan and Philipp Bonhoeffer. Professor Francis Fontan is Emeritus Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Bordeaux II. He is one of the most eminent pioneers of pediatric cardiac surgery, having made decisive advances in the surgery of congenital malformations in children using a new procedure known universally as the ‘Fontan circulation’. Professor Philipp Bonhoeffer is Head of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, and one of the pioneers of revolutionary pediatric interventional cardiology, which involves performing ‘non-invasive’ surgical procedures using probes and micro-instruments inserted through the skin. Professor Bonhoeffer was responsible for the first percutaneous implantation of a heart valve bioprosthesis.
The 2005 Grand Prix Scientifique
The Foundation presented its €600,000 award to Professor Harold F. Dvorak (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA), Dr. Napoleone Ferrara (Genentech, San Francisco, USA) and Dr. Moses Judah Folkman (Boston Children’s Hospital, USA).
The 2004 Grand Prix Scientifique
The €500,000 Grand Prix Scientifique was awarded to Professor Attilio Maseri of the Università Vita Salute at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Italy in recognition of his body of work, and more specifically his clinical research on the importance of vasomotor phenomena in the various manifestations of angina pectoris.
The 2003 Grand Prix Scientifique
The €500,000 Grand Prix Scientifique was awarded to Professor Robert J. Lefkowitz of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina (USA) in recognition of his body of work, and more specifically his very important discoveries in the transmembrane helix receptor family presented during the European Days of the French Society of Cardiology between January 21st and 24th, 2004.
The 2002 Grand Prix Scientifique
The €600,000 Grand Prix Scientifique was awarded on October 22nd, 2002 to Salvador Moncada, Emeritus Professor of Experimental Biology and Therapeutics at University College London, and Director of The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research.