Jean-Claude Chermann

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Jean-Claude Chermann (born March 23, 1939 in Paris ) is a French biologist ( virology ) who was involved in the discovery of the HI virus .

Chermann studied biology at the Sorbonne , among others with Jacques Monod . In 1982 he was director of a research group at the INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale) at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, which dealt with retroviruses , exactly at the time when research on the HI virus began. He was part of the group that identified the virus, working with Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barré-Sinoussi from the Pasteur Institute, who won the 2008 Nobel Prize for it. Montagnier publicly stated at the time (at a press conference at UNESCO) that Robert Gallo and Chermann also deserved the award. Chermann, who saw himself bypassed the Nobel Prize and thus went public, describes the story of the discovery in a book.

In 2001 he founded his own Urrma laboratory in Aubagne to develop a vaccine against AIDS. In 2010 there was a dispute with the shareholders, as a result of which he was expelled from the laboratory.

In 1992/93 he was also a member of the French parliament ( Département Bouches-du-Rhône ), replacing Bernard Tapie , who took up his ministerial office. In 2009 he became an officer of the Legion of Honor .

In 1993 he received the König Faisal Prize for Medicine with Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barré-Sinoussi for the discovery of HIV. He has two sons, of whom Jean-Francois Chermann is a neurologist in Paris and Olivier Chermann is a journalist at Radio France International.

Fonts

  • Edgar-Hans Relyveld, Jean-Claude Chermann, Gilbert Hervé: Les protéines , Presses Universitaires de France, in the Que sais-je? , Paris 1981

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Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ F. Barre-Sinoussi, JC Chermann, F. Rey, MT Nugeyre, S. Chamaret, J. Gruest, C. Dauguet, C. Axler-Blin, Françoise Brun-Vézinet, C. Rouzioux, Willy Rozenbaum, Luc Montagnier L 'Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) , Science, Volume 220, p. 868, May 20, 1983. Willy Rozenbaum and Francoise Brun-Vezinet were from the Hôpital Bichat Clinic
  2. ↑ The 2008 award was given to the maximum number of three people, of whom Harald zur Hausen had researched the papilloma virus as a cause of cervical cancer
  3. ↑ Chermann, Olivier Galzi Tout le monde doit connaître cette histoire , Éditions Stock, Paris 2009
  4. ↑ Le Professeur Chermann expulse de son laboratoire , Le Parisien, July 6, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Chermann, Jean-Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French biologist (virology)
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris