Philippe Kourilsky

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Philippe Kourilsky

Philippe Kourilsky, born on 22 July 1942 in Boulogne-Billancourt, is a French biologist, a member of the French Academy of sciences[1] and an honorary professor at the Collège de France.[2]

Biography[edit]

Son of Raoul Kourilsky, professor of medicine, and Simone Kourilsky, also a doctor, Philippe Kourilsky devoted himself to biology after studying mathematics and physics at the École polytechnique. For his doctorate, he chose as thesis director the biologist François Gros,.

Professional background[edit]

Kourilsky spent most of his career at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, as a research director. He was elected correspondent of the French Academy of sciences (section of molecular and cellular biology, genomics) in 1990, then member in 1997.[3]

In 1998, he was appointed professor at the Collège de France, where he held the chair of molecular immunology until 2012.[4] Professor at the Institut Pasteur on 1 January 2000, he was appointed Director General; a position he resigned from on 31 July 2005.[5]

Kourilsky has also been a member of Academia Europaea since 1992,[6] and a member of the Foresight Committee of the Veolia Institute.[7] He became editor-in-chief of the digital journal FACTS Reports, launched in 2007 with the support of the same institute.[8]

In 2010, he founded the Resolis association, of which he has been president since then.[8]

Research studies[edit]

He has held numerous responsibilities in the administration of research and applications of genetics and immunology in the public and private sectors. He is the author of a report on the precautionary principle, submitted to the Prime Minister in 2006.

Distinctions[edit]

1980: Member of EMBO

1986: International Prize for Immunopathology

1990: Lacassagne Prize of the Collège de France

1998: Officier of the Légion d'Honneur

2000: International Prize for Research in Medical Sciences

2001: Doctor honoris causa of the University La Sapienza in Rome

2001: Commandeur of the National Ordre du Mérite

2005: Doctor honoris causa from the University of Quebec

2009: Commandeur of the Légion d'Honneur.

2015: Grand Officer of the National Ordre du Mérite[9]

Publications[edit]

  • Les promesses de l'immunologie[10]
  • Le Jeu du hasard et de la complexité: La nouvelle science de l'immunologie, Odile Jacob, 2014.[11]
  • Philippe Kourilsky, Le manifeste de l'altruisme, Odile Jacob, Paris, 2011.[12]
  • « Vaccination : quand l’éthique devient immorale », Pour la Science, Paris, 2004, no 322, p. 8-11.[13]
    ... Such deviations are already being observed, as is the case for a component of HIV combination therapies, Tenofovir, for which a clinical trial (detailed in the article on Tenofovir) in Cameroon has made a sad reputation
  • Du bon usage du principe de précaution, Odile Jacob, 2002.[14]
  • La science en partage, Odile Jacob, 1998.[15]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Académie des sciences". Archived from the original on 2019-05-03. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  2. ^ "Collège de France". Archived from the original on 2019-05-03. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  3. ^ "Philippe Kourilsky - Les Membres de l'Académie des sciences" (in French). Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  4. ^ "Philippe Kourilsky, Biographie" (in French). Archived from the original on May 3, 2019. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  5. ^ "Histoire de l'Inserm". Archived from the original on 2020-02-24. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  6. ^ Kourilsky, Philippe Archived 2019-11-13 at the Wayback Machine sur le site de l'Academia Europaea
  7. ^ "Présentation sur le site de l'Institut Veolia" (in French). Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  8. ^ a b "Resolis - Les membres de Resolis" (in French). Archived from the original on 2020-05-07. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  9. ^ "Journal officiel de la République française - N° 271 du 22 novembre 2015" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  10. ^ "Promesses de l'immunologie". Archived from the original on 2019-05-03. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  11. ^ "Jeu du hasard et de la complexité". Archived from the original on 2020-05-11. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  12. ^ "Le manifeste de l'altruisme". Archived from the original on 2019-05-03. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  13. ^ "Vaccination : Quand l'éthique devient immorale". Archived from the original on 2019-05-03. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  14. ^ "Principe de précaution". Archived from the original on 2019-05-03. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  15. ^ "La science en partage". Archived from the original on 2019-05-03. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
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