Publication

Experimental Medicine

Éditions du Collège de France
Édition numérique
Opening Lectures
Inaugural Lectures

Author(s)

Alain Fischer

Presentation

Experimental medicine, founded by Claude Bernard in the nineteenth century, decisively oriented medical research and especially modern biology. Amongst other things, it shed light on the role of the immune system, in other word, the means of defence developed by the body to fight microbes.

Alain Fischer’s work, at the interface between genetics, immunology, and paediatrics, consists in identifying rare diseases’ genetic and molecular bases, inherited immunodeficiencies (IID), causing vulnerability to infection, auto-inflammatory and auto-immune diseases, and sometimes cancers.

Alain Fischer is a doctor, a paediatric immunology professor and a biology researcher. He has headed the Imagine Institute of the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital since 2011. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and of the Académie nationale de médecine, and received the Inserm Grand Prix in 2008. Since 2013, he holds the Chair of Experimental Medicine at the Collège de France.

ISBN
978-2-7226-0845-0
Publication date
Language
anglais
Translator
Liz Libbrecht
Price
7.99 €
Distribution
OpenEdition
Format
Édition numérique

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