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Descartes Prize 2008 : Professor Pascale Cossart

Excellence in European scientific collaborative research for the Virlis Project. Professor Pascale Cossart, from the Institut Pasteur in Paris, is the coordinator of the VIRLIS project.

Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium responsible for one of the most severe food borne infections. However, it was not actually recognised as a food-borne pathogen until the mid-eighties. Today, the bacterium is one of the most studied organisms in infection biology and is a reference model for infectious diseases in general. This is largely thanks to the extensive research on Listeria undertaken over more than ten years by the European research consortium VIRLIS. The consortium involves eight research groups from three European countries (France (2), Germany (3) and Spain (3)) and has been at the forefront of major advances in the study of the molecular and cellular basis for the virulence of this bacterial pathogen. Professor Pascale Cossart, from the Institut Pasteur in Paris, is the coordinator of the VIRLIS project.