Jean-Pierre Soulier

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Jean-Pierre Soulier (born September 14, 1915 in Étretat , † January 18, 2003 in Paris ) was a French hematologist .

Life

Jean-Pierre Soulier was born in 1915 in a small village in Normandy. He was the grandson of a surgeon. After attending elementary and high school in Rouen , at the age of 15 he moved to the “Pasteur” high school in the Neuilly district of Paris, where he obtained his university entrance qualification. He then completed a medical degree at the University of Paris, which he graduated in 1937. Further training took him to Harvard University in the United States for a year as a research fellow in 1945 . On his return he was first head of the laboratory of a regional blood donation service in Paris. Nine years later he was appointed director of the National Institute for Transfusion Service . In 1961 he was appointed professor of hematology at the University of Paris. From 1978 to 1980 he was President of the International Society for Transfusion Medicine.

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The main interests of his research were both in the field of blood transfusion and blood clotting . He introduced some techniques to study various problems in this area. In 1947 he published the discovery of the anticoagulant substance phenylindanedione and the first preparation of a therapeutic blood plasma fraction for the successful treatment of a factor IX and prothrombin complex deficiency. The Bernard-Soulier syndrome , a congenital disorder of the functions of the blood platelets ( thrombocytes ) with an increased tendency to bleed, was named after him.

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SURNAME Soulier, Jean-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French medic and hematologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Étretat
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2003
Place of death Paris