Scientific Committee (SC)

Prof Alain Fischer

Prof Alain Fischer obtained his medical degree (pediatrics) in 1979, then professor of immunology at Paris Descartes University and 1991 director of an INSERM unit. He was head of the “Pediatric Immunology and Hematology” unit at the Necker Hospital from 1996 to 2012. In 2002, he was elected full member of the Academy of Sciences and in 2011 of the Academy of Medicine.

He was a member of the National Consultative Ethics Committee (2003-2009) and co-founding the Imagine Institute for Genetic Diseases and its director (2007-2016). Fischer was elected as an international member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine in 2017 and of the U.S. Academy of Sciences in 2019. Fischer is an emeritus professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Experimental Medicine. He was the President of the strategic committee on the French vaccination programme against Covid 2020-2022, now President of the French Academy of Sciences.

His work has been recognised by numerous awards, including the Jeantet Prize (2001), the INSERM Grand Prix (2008), the Robert Koch Prize (2014), the Japan Prize (2015). Fischer’s work has been devoted to the study of the human immune system through the characterization of numerous genetic defects and the understanding of their physiopathology.