Researcher profile

Joël BOCKAERT

Joël Bockaert Born on October 3, 1945 in Roubaix (59). 1964-1968 Student Ecole Normale Supérieure-Rue d'Ulm-Paris . Agrégé in Natural Sciences (1968). 1973-Thesis work at the Collège de France on Vasopressin receptors 1973-75 Post-doctoral internship at Northwestern University in Chicago on LH receptors with Lutz Birnbaumer 1968-73 Assistant Professor University of Paris VI 1973-1982 Deputy director of the Cellular Physiology Chair at the College de France. 1982-Founder of the CNRS-INSERM Institute of Pharmacology-Endocrinology 1991-1995 Chairman of Specialized Scientific Commission No. 5 of INSERM entitled "Signaling and intracellular transport (receptors and coupling mechanisms, cellular toxicology)" 1992-1995 Président of the French Société des Neurosciences 1999 Président elected Scientific committee FENS 2000 in Brighton 2001-2014 Professor at the University of Montpellier 2003-Founder of the Institute of Functional Genomics. https://www.igf.cnrs.fr/index.php/fr/ 2013-2017 Director of the Biology-Health Center of Montpellier :https://muse.edu.umontpellier.fr/ 2014-Professor emeritus University of Montpellier -Ranking of French neubobiologist : rank 5: https://research.com/scientists-rankings/neuroscience/fr -Prize and Distinctions Rochat-Julliard de l’Académie des Sciences Prize Elli-Lilly ECNP Prize, Member of EMBO Charles-Léopold Mayer Prize Académie des Sciences Doctor Honoris Causa free University of Bruxelles. Doctor Honoris Causa Unviversity of Montreal Member of French "Académie des Sciences" Joël Bockaert have discovered many important neurotransmitter receptors -Dopamine receptors (D1) in the frontal cortex (seat of working memory, emotions and action) -Serotonin receptors i4 (5-HT4) involved in gastrointestinal transit intestinal but also memory, food intake, respiration, -Metabotropic glutamate receptors (first paper published in Nature in 1985 (actually 12000 papers published on those receptors) Metabotropic glutamate receptors are involved in many brain functions, control of emotions (anxiety, mood states), control of voluntary movements, pain, cognition Implication in Funding agencies in France (CNRS) (INSERM) and Belgium (FNRS) Implication in Neuroscience organization (President of the French Neuroscience society) and FENS (1999 President elected Scientific committee FENS 2000 in Brighton), member of the Dana Foundation -Implication in the organization of many international meeting such FENS meeting (1999) and Gordon Conference :2009 Chair of the Molecular Pharmacology conference Recent Advances in Basic and Translational Research on G Protein-Coupled Receptors and Signaling -Founder of two internationally recognized Institutes (https://www.igf.cnrs.fr/index.php/fr/) • Member of the Editorial Committee of EMBO Membership and Publication • Deputy Editor European Journal of Neuroscience (1996-2003) • Deputy Editor Molecular Pharmacology • Editor Frontier in Neurosciences` °Member of Faculty of 1000