Jean-Claude Ameisen

Jean Claude Ameisen (born December 22, 1951) is a French doctor, immunologist and researcher in biology. He is Director of the Center for Life Studies of the Paris Institute of Humanities, Paris Diderot University and President of the National Consultative Ethics Committee (2012–2016).[1]

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Jean Claude Ameisen
Jean Claude Ameisen in 2015.
Born
Jean Claude Ameisen

(1951-12-22) December 22, 1951
New York City, United States
NationalityFrench
EducationÉcole alsacienne
Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Alma materParis Diderot University
Occupation
Known forPresident of the National Consultative Ethics Committee (2012-2016)
SuccessorJean-François Delfraissy

He has published several works and hosts the radio show Sur les épaules de Darwin.[2]

He is a doctor, an immunologist and a French researcher in biology. He is the Director of the Center for Life Studies of the Paris Institute of Humanities, Paris Diderot University and President of the National Consultative Ethics Committee (2012–2016).

Biography

Family

His father, Emanuel Ameisen, with Polish and Jewish origins, emigrated to Paris in the 1930s, where he became an engineer after completing studies in Grenoble.[3] His mother Janine Ameisen was a painter and survivor of Auschwitz. She then lived in the United States where Jean Claude Ameisen was born.

He is the older brother of Olivier Ameisen, a doctor known to have successfully experimented baclofen against alcohol dependence,[4][5] and Éva Ameisen, stomatologist and songwriter.

Career

He studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and the École Alsacienne, then studied medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Cochin and Lille University Hospital where he did his internship. He specializes in pneumology and focuses on immunology research within INSERM. He is a postdoctoral fellow then associate researcher in immunology at Yale University School of Medicine (1986–1987). He is a lecturer and hospital practitioner in immunology at Lille University Hospital (1989–1996). In 1994, he was appointed director of the Inserm U415 unit at the Institut Pasteur in Lille. In 1996, he was appointed Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute of Allergy and Immunology at La Jolla (LIAI) in California and, in 1998, Professor of Immunology at Bichat Hospital (Paris-Diderot University).[4] In September 2011, he was appointed director of the Center for Life Studies at the Paris Institute of Humanities.[6]

Functions on ethics committees

Jean Claude Ameisen was president of the INSERM ethics committee from 2003 to 2012,[7] and in 2005 became a member of the National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE).[8] On October 3, 2012, on the proposal of the President of the Republic François Hollande, the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly and that of the Senate approved his appointment to the presidency of the CCNE to replace Alain Grimfeld having completed his term.[9][10] He took office on November 9, 2012,[11] he became honorary president at the time of the appointment of Jean-François Delfraissy on December 14, 2016.[12]

He was president of the Ethics and Scientific Committee of the International Foundation for Applied Research on Disability (FIRAH) from 2009 to 2013.

Other commitments in civil society

Author of many essays on science, he is, since September 2010, the designer and the host of the show Sur les épaules de Darwin de France Inter.[13][5]

He was the President of the French Conference for Biodiversity held in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc in May 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity, then the National Strategy for Biodiversity Review Committee in 2011.

In July 2011, he joined Martine Aubry's campaign team for the 2012 presidential election, in charge, with Charlotte Brun, of the subject "Elderly people, Dependency, and Disability".[14]

In 2016, he became the sponsor of the ECN 2020 promotion at Nancy's Faculty of Medicine.

Scientific contributions

Jean Claude Ameisen is mainly known for his work on the processes of programmed cell death or apoptosis in physiopathology and evolution.[15]

Works
  • La sculpture du vivant : le suicide cellulaire ou la mort créatrice, éditions du Seuil, 1999 ISBN 202036856-0 ; Points Seuil, 2003 ISBN 2-02-057374-1
  • Qu'est-ce que mourir ? en collaboration avec Danièle Hervieu-Léger et Emmanuel Hirsch, éditions Le Pommier / Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, 2003 ISBN 2-74650152-X, 2010 ISBN 978-2746504981
  • Quand l'art rencontre la science, en collaboration avec Yvan Brohard et l'Inserm, éditions de La Martinière, 2007 ISBN 978-2-7324-3654-8 ; 2009 ISBN 978-2732439037
  • Dans la lumière et les ombres : Darwin et le bouleversement du monde, éditions Fayard/éditions du Seuil, 2008 ISBN 9782213638003 ; Points Seuil, 2011 ISBN 978-2757822982
  • Les couleurs de l'oubli, en collaboration avec François Arnold, éditions de l'Atelier, 2008 ISBN 978-2-7082-4024-7
  • " Les rythmes du vivant " dans Rythmes de l'homme, rythmes du monde, Séminaire de l'École normale supérieure de la rue d'Ulm 2006–2008, sous la direction de Christian Doumet et Aliocha Wald Lasowski, éditions Hermann, 2010
  • Sur les épaules de Darwin : les battements du temps, France Inter / Les liens qui libèrent, 2012 ISBN 979-10-209-0011-1
  • Sur les épaules de Darwin : Je t'offrirai des spectacles admirables, France Inter / Les liens qui libèrent, 2013 ISBN 979-10-209-0066-1
  • Les couleurs de l'oubli (Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée), avec François Arnold, Les Editions de l'Atelier, 2014. ISBN 9782708242814
  • Sur les épaules de Darwin : Retrouver l'aube, France Inter / Les liens qui libèrent, 2014 ISBN 979-10-209-0160-6
  • Les chants mêlés de la Terre et de l'Humanité, éd. de l'Aube, 2015 ISBN 978-2-8159-1348-5

Radio

Awards and recognition
  • 1992 : Winner of l'Académie Nationale de Médecine (Prix Léon-Baratz).
  • 1993 : Winner of Inserm/Académie des sciences.
  • 1997 : Winner of BNP/Fondation pour la recherche médicale.
  • 2000 : Prix Jean-Rostand (given by Mouvement universel de la responsabilité scientifique and the Association des écrivains scientifiques de France) and prix Biguet from the Académie française for the book La Sculpture du vivant.
  • 2009 : Laureate in the sciences of the prize awarded by the Fondation Renée-et-Léonce-Bernheim pour les arts, les sciences et les lettres under the Fondation du judaïsme français.
  • 2013 : Award for best radio program of CB News Media Grand Prix for the show Sur les épaules de Darwin.
gollark: Under hub maybe.
gollark: This is how I have been led to believe interviews operate, yes.
gollark: I suppose I could add things about my interests.
gollark: I agree.
gollark: ... "animals"?

References
  1. "Members – Comité Consultatif National d'Ethique". ccne-ethique.fr.
  2. "On The Shoulders of Darwin (Sur les epaules de Darwin) – 2 Seas Foreign Rights Catalog".
  3. Claude), Ameisen, J. C. (Jean (2008). Dans la lumière et les ombres : Darwin et le bouleversement du monde. [Paris]: Fayard. ISBN 9782213638003. OCLC 319214580.
  4. "Jean Claude Ameisen, l'alchimiste". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  5. "Jean Claude Ameisen, la voix poéthique". Libération.fr (in French). Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  6. "centredetudesduvivant". archive.wikiwix.com. Archived from the original on August 3, 2020. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  7. "INSERM". archive.wikiwix.com. Archived from the original on February 23, 2011. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  8. "CCNE-ethique.fr". archive.wikiwix.com. Archived from the original on February 23, 2011. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  9. "Assemblée nationale ~ Compte rendu de réunion de la commission des affaires sociales". assemblee-nationale.fr. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  10. "Commission des affaires sociales : compte rendu de la semaine du 1er octobre 2012". senat.fr (in French). Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  11. "ccne-ethique.fr" (PDF). archive.wikiwix.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 29, 2013. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  12. "ccne-ethique.fr". archive.wikiwix.com. Archived from the original on June 28, 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  13. "Sur les épaules de Darwin par Jean Claude Ameisen – France Inter". France Inter (in French). Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  14. "martineaubry.fr". archive.wikiwix.com. Archived from the original on July 12, 2011. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  15. pubmeddev. "Ameisen JC – PubMed – NCBI". ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  16. News, CB. "The Voice triomphe au Grand Prix des Médias" (in French). Retrieved August 26, 2018.
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