Professor Johanne Martel-Pelletier
Co-Laureate of the King Faisal Prize in Medicine 2010
Topic: "Non-Arthroplasty Management of Degenerative Joint Disease "
Collaboration between basic research and clinical research scientists is the key to the success of any medical research
Johanne Martel-Pelletier earned her B.Sc. in Molecular Biology from Université du Québec à Montréal in 1973, followed by her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Physiology from the University of Montreal, in 1975 and 1979, respectively. She completed her training first in biophysics at the University of Montreal in 1979, then in rheumatology at the University of Miami in 1981. She was appointed as anAssistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Montreal in 1981 then became an Associate Professor in 1989 and a full Professor in 1995. She is the Co-Director of the Osteoarthritis Research Unit at the Notre-Dame Hospital of the University of Montreal Hospital Center, which she co-founded with Jean-Pierre Pelletier in 1981.
She is an active member of several editorial boards and committees and is a highly respected reviewer for many rheumatology and connective tissue journals, and governmental and private research funding agencies.
In recognition of her excellence in osteoarthritis research, Professor Johanne Martel-Pelletier was awarded a number of fellowships and prizes including ILAR Rheumatology Prize, the International Carol-Nachman Award for Rheumatology, Personality of the Week of La Presse, Montreal in 2000, and the EULAR Scientific Award for Basic Research in Osteoarthritis.
She authored roughly 240 journal articles, 26 books or book chapters, 37 reviews or editorials and 530 abstracts, and has given 155 invited lectures.
This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.
