Michel Salzet

  • Professor

Since 2000, Professor Michel Salzet (59 y/old) is lab director, and in 2015 of the U1192 Inserm, PRISM Laboratory at the University of Lille. Pr. Salzet received his PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Lille 1 in 1993, where he has the Chair of Immunology since 1997. After his PhD, Pr. Salzet worked as Associate Researcher at the Institute of Neurosciences at Stony Brook University (USA). In 1997, Pr. M. Salzet became Professor, Distinguish Professor in 201 . In 1998, he became a member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 1998 until 2003 and Senior Research Scientist at the Beth Israel, Mind Body Institute of Harvard Medical School (1998-2000). Pr. Salzet is an expert in the field of Neuroimmunology and proteomics. He trained 30 PhD students. He published 437 articles, 30 Book Chapters, 18 vulgarization articles, Coordinator of Book: 8, Patents: 30, h-Index: 70, 16881 citations (GoS), Conferences: 112 invited conferences. The total grant he earned is about 35 M€. Pr. Salzet is also co-founder of the Start-Up IMABIOTECH started in 2009, Clic-Imaging platform (2013). At the national level, he was Member of the Governing Board, AVIESAN, ‘DVS Biomarkers and Companion Tests (2015-2017), Scientific Delegate at the Institute of Ecology & Environment of the CNRS (2009-2012), Member of the Scientific Council of the French Natural History Museum (MNHN) Paris (2009-2012) and since 1999 to 2020, he was Member of the National Council of University (CNU) section 68 and expert for the AERES and HCERES. At the international level, he was Member of the Governing Board, European Graduates School of Neurosciences Euron (2011-2016), and Member of the Core Group of LESC & LFUI of European Sciences Foundation (2009-2012). He is Vice Chair on the EIC Pathfinder since 2017 and member of the stakeholder contact group of EU Cancer Beating. He was on the panel of the CRNSG, FCI Canada, FRNTQ. He received in 1993 the Wicart Hagelstein Medaillon and in 2003 the “Grand Prix des Sciences” by the Lille Science Academy of the Sciences, the INPI (Nord of France) (2008), MATWIN (2015), STEFANIK Price (2020) and the International Slovak Sciences Academy Award (2022).