Philippe Kourilsky

Philippe Kourilsky, born on 22 July 1942 in Boulogne-Billancourt, is a French biologist, a member of the French Academy of sciences and an honorary professor at the Collège de France.

Biography Son of Raoul Kourilsky, professor of medicine, and Simone Kourilsky, also a doctor, Philippe Kourilsky devoted himself to biology after studying mathematics and physics at the École polytechnique. For his doctorate, he chose as thesis director the biologist François Gros.

Professional background Kourilsky spent most of his career at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, as a research director. He was elected correspondent of the French Academy of sciences (section of molecular and cellular biology, genomics) in 1990, then member in 1997.

In 1998, he was appointed professor at the Collège de France, where he held the chair of molecular immunology until 2012. Professor at the Institut Pasteur on 1 January 2000, he was appointed Director General; a position he resigned from on 31 July 2005.

Kourilsky has also been a member of Academia Europaea since 1992, and a member of the Foresight Committee of the Veolia Institute. He became editor-in-chief of the digital journal FACTS Reports, launched in 2007 with the support of the same institute.

In 2010, he founded the Resolis association, of which he has been president since then.

Publications

Les promesses de l'immunologie Le Jeu du hasard et de la complexité: La nouvelle science de l'immunologie, Odile Jacob, 2014. Philippe Kourilsky, Le manifeste de l'altruisme, Odile Jacob, Paris, 2011. « Vaccination : quand l’éthique devient immorale », Pour la Science, Paris, 2004, no 322, p. 8-11. ... Such deviations are already being observed, as is the case for a component of HIV combination therapies, Tenofovir, for which a clinical trial (detailed in the article on Tenofovir) in Cameroon has made a sad reputation Du bon usage du principe de précaution, Odile Jacob, 2002. La science en partage, Odile Jacob, 1998.