Françoise Soussaline (née Yerouchalmi) is a French biophysicist and businesswoman, a specialist in cell imaging.

Françoise Soussaline
BornSep 3, 1945
NationalityFrench
Alma materPierre and Marie Curie University
Awards
  • Chevalière de l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur (1997)
  • Chevalière de l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur (2001)
  • Irène Joliot-Curie Prize dans la catégorie parcours femme entreprise (2010)
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular Spectroscopy
Biomedical Physics
Institutions
  • IMSTAR
  • BioCRITT
  • SME of the MEDICEN Paris Region competitiveness cluster

Education and career

She studied physics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University and completed a PhD in molecular spectroscopy in 1973. She began her career as a researcher at Inserm, where she was involved in the development of the first digital scanner in nuclear medicine. She then joined the Frédéric-Joliot hospital department of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission where she developed Positron emission tomography locally as part of a second thesis in biophysics completed in 1984 at the University of Paris-Sud under the direction of Nobel Prize winner Georges Charpak. She became associate professor in Physics and Medical Biophysics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University and the University of Paris-Sud.[1]

In 1985, she founded the company IMSTAR, which designs, develops and markets automated imaging systems for life-sciences research and diagnostic tests for genetic disorders and cancers.[1][2]

From 1994 to 2008, she served as the president of BioCRITT Ile de France

Between 2007 and 2009, she was vice-president of the fr:Pôles de compétitivité en Île-de-France fr:Medicen (Medicen [business] competition clusters in the Île-de-France region). She is also a member of the supervisory board of the Paris Region Innovation Centre.[1][3]

She is an active supporter of equality for women in science. She has been part of the association fr:Femmes et Sciences since its creation in 2000 and promotes science as a career choice amongst girls in secondary schools.[1]

Recognition

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "La recherche du laboratoire à l'entreprise : le parcours, guidé par l'innovation, d'une physiciennedans le domaine de la santéFrançoise Soussaline, fondatrice et PDG de la société IMSTAR, Prix Irène Joliot-Curie 2010, parcours femme entreprise" (PDF). www.femmesetsciences.fr. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Prix Irène Joliot-Curie 2010". www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  3. ↑ "Femmes Monde à la Coupole". archive.wikiwix.com. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  4. ↑ Décret du 28 mars 1997 portant promotion et nomination
  5. ↑ Décret du 14 mai 2001 portant promotion et nomination
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