Carine Van Lint, award of the KT Jeang Retrovirology Prize 2025

Carine Van Lint is Research director FNRS and Director of the Molecular Virology Laboratory at ULB. She has recently been awarded the KT Jeang Retrovirology Prize. Established in 2005 for the journal Retrovirology, this Prize is awarded annually to a mid-career researcher who has made exceptional contributions to the field of retrovirology.

 

Carine’s work thus largely contributed to the molecular understanding of the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms involved in the establishment and maintenance of HIV-1 latency and reactivation from latency. Carine Van Lint also contributed to the molecular understanding of the post-transcriptional blocks to HIV-1 gene expression.

 

She received several prizes and awards for outstanding PhD thesis research: the Jean STAS Prize of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium in 1994; the Solvay Award in 1995; and the Docteur Paul A. G. Janssen 1995 Award of the Belgium Royal Chemistry Society.

 

Since 1997, Carine Van Lint has been teaching courses in Virology, gene expression and epigenetics both at the Faculty of Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine of the ULB. She co-organized several international scientific meetings, including the Joint 2021 Keystone Symposia on HIV Vaccines/HIVPathogenesis and Cure. She was a member of the ANRS scientific committees (2000-2004), and since 2022, she has been a member of the Sidaction medical and scientific committee (Paris, France)

 

Throughout her career, Carine has received several awards and honorary distinctions, including the Pharmacia 2002 Scientific Prize (FNRS and Pharmacia Society), the Biennial 2003 Prize of the Princess Josephine-Charlotte Study Center (FNRS), and the Atomia Prize “Brussels Women for Science” (2014). In 2011, she was given the title of Officer of the Order of Leopold II of the Kingdom of Belgium for services rendered. In 2016, she was elected member of the French Academy of Pharmacy.