Dr. Jean-Laurent Casanova, az amerikai egyesült államokbeli Rockefeller Egyetem professzorának díszdoktori avatása a Debreceni Egyetemen 2010. június 5.
Jean-Laurent Casanova received his M.D. from the University of Paris Descartes in 1987 and his Ph.D. in immunology from the University of Paris Pierre et Marie Curie in 1992, after being trained at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Lausanne. Following a residency in paediatrics in Paris, he completed a clinical fellowship in the paediatric immunology-haematology unit of the Necker Medical School in Paris. In 1999 he was appointed a professor of paediatrics at Necker, where, with Dr. Abel, he cofounded and co-directed the Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases. He was appointed professor at Rockefeller in 2008 and founded his second Laboratory here.
Dr. Casanova was an International Research Scholar with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 2005 to 2008 and is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization and the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Dr. Casanova is the recipient of the 2008 Richard Lounsbery Award from the French and American Academies of Sciences and a Professor Lucien Dautrebande Path physiology Foundation Prize from the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine in 2004. In 2009, he received an honorary degree from the University of Zurich and the Oswald Avery Award for Early Achievement from the Infectious Disease Society of America. He was awarded in May 2010 with the prestigious E. Mead Johnson Award, given by the American Society for Paediatric Research, to honour his clinical and laboratory research achievements in paediatrics.