Yves Agid

Yves Agid (born 13 November 1940 in Nice in the Alpes-Maritimes) is a neurologist, neuropsychiatrist, cell biologist, neurochemist, academician, university professor, hospital doctor, researcher in biology and scientist specializing in neurosciences.

Early life and education Yves Agid is the son of university professor Rene Agid and Swedish artist painter Sylvia Stave. Rene Agid was a close friend of Romain Gary. The latter dedicated his novel The Promise at Dawn to Rene and Sylvia Agid.

Yves Agid was educated at the Lycée Jean-Baptiste Corot in Savigny-sur-Orge and the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University. He served as an hospital intern in Paris in 1966 and Chief clinical assistant of the neuropsychiatry department and hospitals in Paris 1973. He received his MD in 1973 from University of Paris. He obtained his PhD in Science in 1976 working with Jacques Glowinski at the College of France and became PU-PH in neurology and neuropsychology in 1979 at the Salpêtrière, then head of the Neurology Department at the Pitié-Salpêtrière from 1993 to 2007. He is also founder and scientific director of the Brain and Spine Institute.

He is one of the most cited scientists of the past 20 years. Agid is professor of Neurology and Neurosciences at the ICM.

Meanwhile Agid led his research career at the French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) from 1985 to 2000 as director of the unit U289. He served as president of the French Neurological Society from 2002 - 2003. His research has been devoted to studying the mechanisms of cell death, and their pathophysiological and clinical consequences, with the essential model of Parkinson disease.

Among his key contributions: 2003 Research Award from the American Academy of Neurology. 2004 Career Award of the Movement Disorder Society. 2025 Leonardo Da Vinci Prize from the European Academy of Sciences.