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Philippe Kourilsky
Biologist
Professor at the Collège de France
Honorary Director-General of the Institut Pasteur
Biography
Philippe Kourilsky is a biologist who graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique. Dr Kourilsky is Professor and Chair of Molecular Immunology at the College de France as well as a member of the French Academy of Sciences. In addition, he has taken on the position as the Chairman of the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN). He currently sits on the Board of the Veolia Environment company in which he chairs the Innovation Committee.
Philippe Kourilsky spent most of his career as a member of CNRS (Central National de la Recherche Scientifique) before being elected in 1998 to the College de France where he holds the chair of Molecular Immunology. From 1993 to 1996, he was the Director of Research of Pasteur Merieux Connaught (now Sanofi Pasteur) a leading vaccine company. From 2000-2005, he was appointed Director General of the Pasteur Institute and chaired the International network of Pasteur Institutes.
He has written several books :
Les artisans de l'hérédité (1990), La science en partage (1998), Du bon usage du principe de précaution (2001), Le temps de l'altruisme (2009), as well as more than 350 articles published in international scientific journals.