Christine Petit

Christine Petit (born 4 February 1948) is a French geneticist. She holds professorships at the Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute. She initially studied at the Paris teaching hospital, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital and at the Pasteur Institute. She completed two pieces of post-doctoral research at the Centre for Molecular Research in Gif-sur-Yvette and another in Basel.

Petit holds professorships at Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute. She has a member of the Academy of Science since 14 January 2002.

Petit's research has explored the link between genes and deafness, with her research group at INSERM "Génétique et physiologie de l’audition".

Prizes and honours 1999 : Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer of the Academy of Sciences 2004 : L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science 2006 : Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine 2016 : Foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences Knight of the Legion of Honour Officer of the National Order of Merit 2018 : Kavli Prize in Neuroscience (shared with James Hudspeth and Robert Fettiplace) 2018 : Association for Research in Otolaryngology Award of Merit 2020 : Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (shared with James Hudspeth and Robert Fettiplace). 2021 : Gruber Prize in Neuroscience (shared with Christopher A. Walsh).