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Pierre Magistretti

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Professor
Pierre Julius Magistretti
Pierre J. Magistretti in 2017
Born1952 (age 71–72)
Milan, Italy
CitizenshipItaly
Switzerland
Known forGlia cells metabolism
AwardsIPSEN Foundation Prize
Camillo Golgi Medal Award
Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship
Academic background
EducationMedicine
Neuroscience, University of Geneva
University of California, San Diego
ThesisVasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide: A Regulator of Cellular Homeostasis in Cerebral Cortex (1982)
Doctoral advisorFloyd E. Bloom
William Shoemaker
Other advisorsRalph Straub
Academic work
DisciplineNeuroscience
Sub-disciplineMetabolism of glia cells
InstitutionsEPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
KAUST
Main interestsBrain metabolism
Glia cells
Websitehttps://people.epfl.ch/pierre.magistretti

Pierre J. Magistretti (born 1952 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian and Swiss neuroscientist and physician. He is a professor emeritus of neuroscience at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; until 2017), University of Geneva (until 2017) and University of Lausanne (until 2018).[1][2] Until 2012, he was the director of the EPFL's Brain Mind Institute and director of the Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience of the University of Lausanne and Lausanne University Hospital.[3] Since 2012 he has been distinguished professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology where he was dean of the division of biological and environmental sciences and engineering between 2012 and 2020.[4]

Career

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Magistretti studied medicine at University of Geneva, and received his diploma in 1977 and his medical doctor degree in 1979 for his thesis on Etude de la liaison spécifique du ³H-spiropéridol dans la fraction membranaire de la rétine de mammifère supervised by Michel Schorderet.[5] He then joined Floyd E. Bloom's A.V. Davis Center for Behavioral Neurobiology Laboratory at Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla and enrolled in a graduate program for neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego. In 1982, he received his PhD for a thesis on Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide: A Regulator of Cellular Homeostasis in Cerebral Cortex co-supervised by William Shoemaker.[6] Until 1987 he was Maître Assistant (postdoctoral researcher) at University of Geneva's department of pharmacology and worked on the synergistic interactions between vasoactive intestinal peptide and norepinephrine in forming cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP).[7][8]

In 1988, he became professor at the University of Lausanne's department of physiology, whose chairman he was from 2001 to 2004. From 2004 to 2012 he was the founding director of the Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience at the University of Lausanne.[2][3]

In 2005, he became professor and co-director of EPFL's Brain Mind Institute, whose sole director he became in 2008.[1][2] From 2010 to 2016 he acted as director of the Swiss National Center for Competence SynaPsy.[9] Since 2012, he has been distinguished professor and from 2012 to 2020 dean of the department of Biological, Environmental Sciences and Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.[4]

He was given emeritus status at EPFL in 2017, University of Geneva in 2017, and University of Lausanne in 2018.[1][10][11]

Distinctions

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Magistretti is member and for former president of the Swiss Society for Neuroscience (1997–1999),[12] the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FESN; 2002–2004),[13] and the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO; 2014–2019). He was a member of the board of trustees of the Human Frontier Science Program (2003–2018),[14] vice chairman of the European Dana Alliance for the Brain (EDAB; since 2002),[15] honorary member of the Chinese Association for Physiological Sciences (since 2014), ad personam member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (since 2001),[16] and member of Academia Europaea (since 2001).[17]

He is the recipient of the 2016 IPSEN Foundation Prize (together with David Attwell and Marcus Raichle),[18] the 2011 Camillo Golgi Medal Award from the Golgi Foundation,[19] and the 2009 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship from Canadian Psychological Association. In 2024 Magistretti became a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[20]

He was International Chair Professor at Collège de France (2007–2008),[21] and Emil Kraepelin Guest Professor at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry (2002).[22]

Selected works

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "18 professors appointed at ETH Zurich and EPFL | ETH-Board". www.ethrat.ch. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  2. ^ a b c "Pierre Magistretti". people.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  3. ^ a b "Team". CHUV. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  4. ^ a b "Pierre Magistretti". www.kaust.edu.sa. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  5. ^ "Etude de la liaison spécifique du ³H-spiropéridol dans la fraction membranaire de la rétine de mammifère : son intérêt pour l'évaluation de l'affinité dopaminergique des substances psychotropes". slsp-unige.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  6. ^ Magistretti, Pierre Julius (1982). Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide: a regulator of cellular homeostasis in cerebral cortex (Thesis).
  7. ^ Magistretti, Pierre J.; Morrison, John H. (1985-01-01). "VIP neurons in the neocortex". Trends in Neurosciences. 8: 7–8. doi:10.1016/0166-2236(85)90005-0. ISSN 0166-2236. S2CID 53177354.
  8. ^ Schaad, Nicolas C.; Schorderet, Michel; Magistretti, Pierre J. (August 1987). "Prostaglandins and the synergism between VIP and noradrenaline in the cerebral cortex". Nature. 328 (6131): 637–640. Bibcode:1987Natur.328..637S. doi:10.1038/328637a0. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 3039374. S2CID 4332351.
  9. ^ "Pierre Magistretti | NCCR-Synapsy". Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  10. ^ "Pierre J. Magistretti : A life-long passion for neuroscience | NCCR-Synapsy". 2017-12-17. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  11. ^ "Congratulations to W. Herr who was named Prof. Emeritus from Aug. 1, 2018". www.genomyx.ch. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  12. ^ "Our History | Zurich, Switzerland |". www.swissneuroscience.ch. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  13. ^ Stewart, Michael G. (October 1999). "FENS 2000 – Federation of European Neuroscience Societies millennium meeting". Trends in Neurosciences. 22 (10): 427–428. doi:10.1016/s0166-2236(99)01484-8. ISSN 0166-2236. PMID 10481184. S2CID 37500914.
  14. ^ Office, FENS. "Magistretti, Pierre". FENS.org. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  15. ^ "Alliance Membership". Dana Foundation. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  16. ^ "Senate". Senate. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  17. ^ "Academy of Europe: Magistretti Pierre". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  18. ^ "The 27th Neuronal Plasticity Prize of the Fondation IPSEN Has Been Awarded to David Attwell, Pierre Magistretti and Marcus Raichle". www.businesswire.com. 2016-07-05. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  19. ^ "Camillo Golgi Medal Award 2011" (PDF). Fondazione Camillo Golgi. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  20. ^ "Akademiets nye medlemmer 2024". Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi (in Norwegian Bokmål). 2024-03-06. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
  21. ^ "Biographie". www.college-de-france.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  22. ^ "Emil Kraepelin Guest Professorship awarded to Professor Charles Nemeroff". www.psych.mpg.de. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
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