Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine

The Louis- Jeantet Foundation (French Fondation Louis -Jeantet ) supported a Swiss foundation in Geneva, biomedical research.

It was founded in November 1982 with the legacy of Louis Jeantet. The Foundation awards one to three Louis -Jeantet prices every year. It also supports biomedical research and teaching in Switzerland, especially at the Medical Faculty of the University of Geneva, with about 2 million a year CHF for endowed professorships, scholarships and research grants.

The trustees are ex officio of the Geneva Health Minister, the President of the Geneva Cours de Justice (Supreme cantonal court of appeal for civil cases ) and the Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Geneva in. The Scientific Committee, in which 13 European research organizations and research institutes are represented, each year is the jury for the Louis- Jeantet Prize.

The administration of the foundation is housed in a villa built in 1904 in the district of Rieu. This grade II listed Neo - Renaissance building 501 670 / 11648546.1926256.164903418 are also seminar and reception rooms, and a neighboring high-rise building an auditorium.

Founder

Louis Jeantet (* August 4, 1897 in Paris, † December 13, 1981 in Geneva ) was a French businessman. After the First World War he acted with cars and car tires ( general agent of Firestone for Europe). In the 1930s, he worked in finance. In 1936 he moved to Geneva, and soon thereafter devoted herself only his private life and the management of its assets. He died childless in 1981 from the effects of cancer. Before his death he organized with six trustees, the Foundation, which was established after his death by his estate.

Louis- Jeantet Prize

The Louis -Jeantet Prize for Medicine (French Prix Louis Jeantet de médecine ) will be awarded to researchers who are active in biomedical research, the more or less immediate practical application for the control of diseases in which suffering humanity has, , as well as in basic research in the medical field. Each year, distributed between one and three prizes. Each prize consists of a research grant of CHF 600,000 and a personal contribution of CHF 100,000. The winners must be active in a member country of the Council of Europe.

Of the 78 winners, six later a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and two a Nobel Prize in Chemistry received (January 2013). Since 1986, the prizes were awarded to the following persons: