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Jean Claude Ameisen (born December 22, 1951 in New York ) is a French doctor , immunologist , university professor and researcher in the field of the mechanisms of programmed cell death . He is director of the Center d'études du vivant at the Paris Institute of Humanities at the Université Paris Diderot and President of the French National Ethics Committee ( Comité consultatif national d'éthique ). He became known to a wider public through numerous non-fiction books and appearances on French television and on the Franco-German cultural channel Arte, as well as his own radio program.

Origin and education

Jean Claude Ameisen comes from a Jewish family originally based in Poland. His father Emanuel Ameisen moved to France, where he worked as an engineer. His mother Janine Ameisen-Maler had studied philosophy and survived Auschwitz. The family had two other children: Olivier , who became a well-known doctor, and Éva, a dentist and songwriter. Jean Claude Ameisen spent his school days at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and the École alsacienne in Paris. He then studied medicine at the Université Paris Diderot and at the University Hospital Hôpital Cochin .

Scientific career

Jean Claude Ameisen practiced at the Center hospitalier régional universitaire de Lille and specialized in pulmonology and immunology at the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale . From 1986 to 1987 he was a postdoctoral fellow and research associate in the immunology department at Yale University Medical School . From 1989 to 1996 he worked as a doctor and lecturer in immunology at the University Hospital of Lille. In 1994 he became director of the U415 department at the Institut Pasteur de Lille. In 1969 he became an Associate Professor at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in La Jolla , California . In 1998 he was appointed professor of immunology at the Université Paris Diderot Paris 7 and the Hôpital Bichat-Claude-Bernard . Since September 2011 he has been director of the Center d'études du vivant .

The programmed cell death

According to ants, a constant alternation of life and death takes place in the cells. There is a balance between cell regrowth and cell death. This is produced by a complex interaction of proteins . Only this balance between death and regrowth enables the organism to survive. Ants call this sculpture du vivant . So life means to a certain extent constant dying and being reborn. The death of cells in the body causes a genetic transcription process. The traces of distant ancestors gradually disappear from the body of living beings.

Ethics Committee

From 2003 to 2012, Jean Claude Ameisen was chairman of the ethics committee of the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale . In 2005 he became a member of the National Ethics Committee. In 2012, he succeeded Alain Grimfeld's president at the suggestion of President François Hollande .

Radio and television

Jean Claude Ameisen is the author of the radio show Sur les épaules de Darwin (On Darwin's Shoulders), which won a media award from CB News in 2013 . In 2012 it reached an average of 1.2 million listeners. In 2009 he was a guest on the Arte television program Leben, part of the philosophy series by the moderator and philosopher Raphaël Enthoven . In 2015 he was his interlocutor on Is it Darwin's fault to be right? Ameisen was repeatedly interview partner for other broadcasts of Arte.

Honors and prizes

  • 1992: Léon Baratz Prize from the Académie nationale de Médecine
  • 1993: Prize of the Académie des Sciences
  • 1997: Prize of the Fondation pour la recherche médicale
  • 2000: Jean Rostand Prize for the book "La sculpture du vivant"
  • 2009: Award from the Renée-et-Léonce-Bernheim Foundation pour les arts, les sciences et les lettres and the Fondation du judaïsme français
  • 2013: Grand Prix for the best radio program of CB News magazine for Sur les épaules de Darwin (On Darwin's Shoulders).

Fonts (selection)

  • Qu'est-ce que mourir? Ed. le Pommier, Paris 2003
  • The?? Beauty and science. Frederking & Thaler, Munich 2008
  • Une histoire de la médecine ou le souffle d'Hippocrate. La Martinière, Paris 2011
  • In the lumière et les ombres. Darwin et le bouleversement du monde. Points, Paris 2011
  • La sculpture du vivant. Le suicide cellulaire ou la mort créatrice. Ed. du Seuil, Paris 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Corinne Bensimon: Jean Claude ants, la voix poéthique. In: Liberation, December 12, 2012 (accessed June 21, 2015)
  2. ↑ Curriculum vitae on www.lasculptureduvivant.fr (accessed June 20, 2015)
  3. ↑ Curriculum vitae on www.lasculptureduvivant.fr (accessed June 20, 2015)
  4. ↑ Jean Claude ants: La Sculpture du Vivant. Le Suicide cellulaire ou la Mort cre ́atrice. Paris 1999, updated reprint Paris 2003 (Points sciences); ders .: "Nous vivons dans l'oubli de nos métamorphoses ...". La mort et la sculpture du vivant. Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 62e Année, No. 6 (Nov-Dec, 2007), pp. 1253-1283
  5. ↑ Jean Claude Ants: "Nous vivons dans l'oubli de nos métamorphoses ...". La mort et la sculpture du vivant. Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 62e Année, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 2007), p. 1282
  6. ^ Corinne Bensimon: Jean Claude ants, la voix poéthique. In: Liberation, December 12, 2012 (accessed June 21, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Ants, Jean Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH new York