Publication numérique de la leçon inaugurale en anglais du Pr Alain Fischer

Alain Fischer

Experimental Medicine

Experimental medicine, founded by Claude Bernard in the nineteenth century, decisively oriented medical research and especially modern biology. Amongst other things, it shed light on the role of the immune system, in other word, the means of defence developed by the body to fight microbes.
Alain Fischer’s work, at the interface between genetics, immunology, and paediatrics, consists in identifying rare diseases’ genetic and molecular bases, inherited immunodeficiencies (IID), causing vulnerability to infection, auto-inflammatory and auto-immune diseases, and sometimes cancers.

Fischer A., Experimental Medicine, traduction de Liz Libbrecht, Paris, Collège de France, Inaugural Lectures, 2025.

Ce livre a été publié avec le soutien de la Fondation du Collège de France.

Alain Fischer is a doctor, a paediatric immunology professor and a biology researcher. He has headed the Imagine Institute of the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital since 2011. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and of the Académie nationale de médecine, and received the Inserm Grand Prix in 2008. Since 2013, he holds the Chair of Experimental Medicine at the Collège de France.