Anne Marie Staub

Anne-Marie Staub (13 November 1914 – 30 December 2012) was a French biochemist who spent most of her career at the Institut Pasteur. She is most known for her work in antihistamines, serology and immunology including her research on Salmonella and tyvelose.

Biography

Early life and education Anne-Marie Staub was born on 13 November 1914 in Pont-Audemer, France into a Pasteurian family: Louis Pasteur was the witness to her grandfather's wedding, and her father André Staub was a researcher in the Institut Pasteur. As a child she learned to read and write from her mother before completing her education at the Ecole Normale catholique where she obtained her baccalaureate.

Work and research While conducting research at the Institut Pasteur in 1937, she worked for Daniel Bovet and her first published works led to the discovery of antihistamines. This discovery was the basis of the Nobel Prize that would be awarded to Bovet in 1957. The molecules that she developed were still too toxic to be successfully used but they are the basis for the research that followed.

Throughout her career she published many articles about her research, often in collaboration with D. Bovet and O. Westphal.

Retirement and death Anne-Marie Staub retired in 1977 and joined a Christian movement called Vie Montante. She spent most of her time reading for the blind and visiting patients in hospitals. Staub died on 30 December 2012 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.

Awards 1969 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 1973 Knight of the Légion d'Honeur 1993 Honorary member of the International Endotoxin and Innate Immunity Society