DrPascal Launois

Professor ad honoram

University of Lausanne

  • Professor ad honoram
    University of Lausanne
  • Scientist
    World Health Organization (Switzerland)
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  • World Health Organization (Switzerland), Special Programme for Resaerch and Training in Tropical Diseases, 20, avenue Appia, Geneva 27, 1211, Switzerland

BIO

Scientist, Research capacity Strengthening and Knowledge Management (RCS-KM), Special Programme for research and training in tropical diseases (TDR), World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva (CH)
Doctor of the faculty of Medicine of Reims University (France) with a specialization in immunology of infectious diseases. He also holds a PhD of Immunology (Lyon Claude Bernard I , France). He worked for more than 15 years with members of the International Network Association of the Institute Pasteur (Institut Pasteur, Paris; Institut Pasteur in Dakar (Senegal) and Institut Pasteur de Cayenne, French Guiana) where his main research areas were Leishmaniasis, Tuberculosis and Buruli Ulcer. Since May 2003, he joined the Special Programme for research and training in tropical diseases (TDR) as head of the WHO Immunology Research and Training Center at the University of Lausanne. In 2008, he joined TDR in Geneva a as training manager in the RCS unit. He is also professor at the University of Lausanne since 2003.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor ad honoram
    University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland3 Nov 2014 - present
  • Professeur
    University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland7 May 2003 - 31 Oct 2014
  • Research Assistant
    Institute Pasteur in Senegal, Dakar, Senegal1 Jan 1988 - 1 Aug 1994
  • Research assistant
    Institut Pasteur-New Calédonia, Nouméa, New Caledonia1 Sep 1984 - 31 Dec 1985
  • Research Assistant
    Institute Pasteur in Paris, Paris, France1 Jan 1986 - 31 Dec 1987
  • Associate Professor
    University of Lausanne, WHO-IRTC, Department of Biochemistry, Lausanne, Switzerland1 Sep 1994 - 1 Aug 1998
  • Associate professor
    Institute Pasteur in French Guiana, Cayenne, French Guiana1 Sep 1998 - 7 Apr 2003

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Scientist
    World Health Organization (Switzerland), Geneva, Switzerland5 May 2003 - present

DEGREES

  • MD, Immunology
    University of Medicine, Reims, France1986

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Specialised course on immunology
    Institut Pasteur de Paris, Paris, France1 Jan 1990
  • Specialised course on Immunopathology
    Institute Pasteur de Paris, Paris, France1 Jan 1986
  • Habilitation to use radioisotopes in research
    Commisseriat à l'Energie Atomique, Saclay, France1 Jan 1988
  • Specialisation in clinical bacteriology and virology
    Faculty of Medicine, Reims, France1 Jan 1983

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • PhD
    Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France1997
    ImmunologySupervised by Louis J.A
  • Habilitation à Diriger des recherches
    Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France1999
    Immunology

LANGUAGES

  • French
    Can read, write and understand
  • English
    Can read, write, speak and understand

WHO REGION

  • WHO European Region

COUNTRY OF NATIONALITY

  • France

AVAILABILITY

  • Career advice
  • Mentoring (long-term)
  • Mentoring (short-term)

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