Cedric Blanpain received several prestigious and highly competitive awards including EMBO Young investigator award, ERC starting, consolidator and advanced grants, the outstanding young investigator award of the ISSCR 2012, the Liliane Bettencourt award for life sciences 2012, the Joseph Maisin Award for basic biomedical Science 2015, the Francqui prize 2020 and the European Association for Cancer Research’s Mike Price Gold Medal Award 2022. He has been elected member of the EMBO in 2012, the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine, the Academia Europaea and the French Academy of Science - Institut de France (foreign member).