Biography

Born August 30, 1936, in Paris. Died November 4, 2020.
Professor and Honorary Administrator of the Collège de France, member of the Institut.

Education and professional career

  • Faculty of Pharmacy and Faculty of Science (Paris-VI), Paris
  • Pharmacist, diploma from the Paris Institute of Pharmacology and Pharmacotechnics, doctorate in natural sciences
  • 1961-1963 : Institut Pasteur
  • 1963-1965 : Laboratory of Clinical Sciences NIMH, Bethesda, USA
  • Inserm researcher : research fellow (1965), senior researcher (1969), research director (1974)
  • 1972-2006 : Director of Inserm Unit U114
  • 1973-1977 : Associate Professor, Université Paris-VII
  • 1979-1992 : Member of the Inserm Scientific Steering Committee (Codis)
  • 1982-2006 : Professor at the Collège de France, holding the Chair of Neuropharmacology at the Collège de France
  • 1991-2000 : Vice-President of the Board of Professors of Collège de France
  • 1991-2013 : In charge of the Collège de France renovation project
  • 2000-2003 : Chairman of the Scientific Council for Brain Research
  • 2000-2006 : Director of the Collège de France
  • 2006-2009 : Guarantor of the Opération d'intérêt national Massy-Palaiseau-Saclay-Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines consultation process
  • 2008 : Member of the Campus selection committee
  • 2009 : Project manager for the coordination and preparation of the Saclay Campus project
  • 2011-2012 : Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Val de Seine School of Architecture

Selected bibliography