Institut Veolia Environnement

Foresight Commitee

Philippe Kourilsky

Biologist
Professor at the Collège de France
Honorary Director-General of the Institut Pasteur

Biography

Currently Professor at the Collège de France and a member of the French Académie des Sciences and of the Academiae Europae, Philippe Kourilsky is an expert on molecular biology.

He heads a research unit at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and is Honorary Director-General of the Institut Pasteur (January 2001 - July 2005).

He has been head of research at Pasteur-Mérieux and Connaught (1992-1995) and research director at CNRS (since 1983) before being nominated at the Collège de France in 1998 where he holds the Chair of Molecular Immunology.

He has written several books :

Les artisans de l'hérédité (The artisans of heredity, 1990),

La science en partage (The lot of science, 1998),

Du bon usage du principe de précaution (2001),

as well as having had more than 300 articles published in international journals (Nature, Cell, etc...).