Alim-Louis Benabid
1942
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
languages spoken, written or signed: French
educated at: Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble Alpes University
occupation: neuroscientist, neurosurgeon, university teacher, researcher
award received: Officer of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the French Order of Academic Palms, Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Neuronal Plasticity Prize, Inserm honor price, honorary doctorate of the University of Porto, honorary doctorate from the McGill University, European Inventor Award
Alim Louis Benabid is a French-Algerian emeritus professor, neurosurgeon and member of the French Academy of Sciences, who has had a global impact in the development of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders. He became emeritus professor of biophysics at the Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble in September 2007, and chairman of the board of the Edmond J. Safra Biomedical Research Center in 2009 at Clinatec, a multidisciplinary institute he co-founded in Grenoble that applies nanotechnologies to neurosciences. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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