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| Formation | 1920; 105 years ago (1920) |
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| Type | Governmental organisation |
| Purpose | Fundamental research |
| Headquarters | 26 rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris |
Official language | French |
President | Thierry Philip |
| Website | institut-curie |
Institut Curie is amedical, biological andbiophysical research centre in France.[citation needed] It is a private non-profit foundation operating aresearch center onbiophysics,cell biology andoncology and ahospital specialized intreatment ofcancer. It is located inParis, France.
Institut Curie is member of EU-LIFE, an alliance of leading life sciences research centres in Europe.[1]
The institute now operates several research units in cooperation with national research institutionsCNRS andINSERM. There are several hundred research staff at the institute.[2]Institut Curie does not offer undergraduate degrees, but awardsPhDs and employs many postdoctoral students alongside its permanent staff. Institut Curie is a constituent college (associate member) ofUniversity PSL.[3]
Institut Curie runs theHôpital Claudius Régaud, a hospital specializing in cancer. The institute also operates theproton therapy center atOrsay, one of the few such facilities in the world.
TheInstitut du Radium, a giant laboratory forMarie Skłodowska–Curie, was founded in 1909 by theUniversity of Paris andInstitut Pasteur. The Institut du Radium had two sections. The Curie laboratory, directed by Maria Skłodowska-Curie, was dedicated to physics and chemistry research. The Pasteur laboratory, directed byClaudius Regaud, was studying the biological and medical effects ofradioactivity. After receiving a joint Nobel Prize with her husband Pierre in 1903, Maria Skłodowska-Curie won a second Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911. During World War One, Skłodowska-Curie used it to teach nurses aboutradiology.
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Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Claudius Regaud established the Foundation Curie in 1920, a public interest institution. The Foundation's purpose was to fund the Institut du Radium's activities and contribute to the development of its therapeutic component. A first hospital opened in 1922. At the clinic, Regaud and his team developed innovative treatments combining surgery andradiation therapy to treat cancer. The Curie Foundation became a model for cancer centers around the world. Curie laboratory continued to play an important role in physics and chemistry research. In 1934, Skłodowska-Curie's daughterIrène and her son-in-lawFrédéric Joliot-Curie discoveredartificial radioactivity. In 1935, it was recognized with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Institut du Radium and the Fondation Curie merged in 1970. It became Institut Curie. The Institut has three missions: research, teaching and treating cancer. The original building of Curies Laboratory from 1914 now houses theMusée Curie.
Six Nobel prizes laureates (and four Nobel prizes) are attached to the Institute's researchers.
43% of all scientificwomen Nobel prize laureates from France (three prizes out of seven received by French women in "hard" sciences and Economy) to this day received them for research conducted at Institut Curie or its ancestor the Radium Institute. If Economy - a social science - is excluded, 50% i.e 3 Nobel Prizes out of 6 received by French scientific women are affiliated to the Curie Institute.
Hence why it is considered that, based on internationally recognised prizes garnered by its researchers, no other research center in the world has hosted that many pioneering women scientists.
Moreover, Curie mentored upwards of 45 scientific women from all over the world[6][7][8][9] includingMarguerite Perey, discoverer offrancium -five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, andJeanne Ferrier, discoverer ofautoradiography, amongst many other peers:Sonia Cotelle,Harriet Brooks,Alice Leigh-Smith,Eva Ramstedt,Lucie Blanquies,Suzanne Veil,Catherine Chamié,Alicja Dorabialska,Ellen Gleditsch,Marthe Weiss,Antonia Elisabeth Korvezee,May Sybil Leslie,Ștefania Mărăcineanu,Branca Edmée Marques,Eliane Montel,Elizabeth Rona,Jadwiga Szmidt,Margarete von Wrangell, Renée Galabert, Isabelle Archinard, and last but not least, Curie's secretary of over 30 years: Léonie Razet.[10]
The Radium Institute also pioneered mobileradiography duringWorld War I where upwards of 150 proto-nurses (nursing diploma in France only in 1922) and radiology pioneers where trained and even more post-war.[11][12]
Coworkers of the Curie Laboratory in the laboratory's library. From the left to the right, seated : Marguerite Perey, Léonie Razet, Isabelle, Archinard, Sonia Cotelle. Standing : André Régnier, Alexis Yakimach, Raymond Grégoire, Renée Galabert, Tchang Da Tcheng, Frédéric Joliot-Curie. In the Radium Institute of Paris, in 1930 (source : Musée Curie ; coll. Institut du Radium ; MCP1117)
Irène Curie and Marthe Klein with the radiology nursing students, at the Curie Laboratory, in the Radium Institute of Paris, in 1947 (source : Musée Curie ; coll. ACJC ; MCP1062).
At the end of war, Marie and Irène Curie have formed american military students to radiology before they go back home
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