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French immunologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yves Lévy (born 1 August 1957) is a French physician researcher and professor of clinical immunology who served as CEO of the French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) from 2014 until 2018.
Yves Lévy | |
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President of the Inserm | |
In office 2014–2018 | |
Preceded by | André Syrota |
Succeeded by | Claire Giry |
Personal details | |
Born | Casablanca, Morocco | 1 August 1957
Nationality | French |
Spouse | |
Children | 3 |
Profession | Physician |
Lévy was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and arrived in France with his parents in 1973. He was naturalised one and a half years later. His passion was literature, before he turned to medicine. After studying medicine and finishing his residency he dedicated himself to HIV research in 1986.[1]
From 1985 Lévy worked in different research units at Inserm, the French Institute of Health and Medical Research.[2] From 1996 to the present he has directed the Department of Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Henri Mondor de Créteil Hospital.[2] Lévy became a professor of clinical immunology, specializing on immunotherapies and vaccines for HIV infection, immunodeficiencies and infectious diseases.[2]
In 2006, Lévy became scientific director of the vaccine programme of the French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis (ANRS).[3]
From 2010 to 2012, Lévy was vice-dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Paris-Est Créteil University (UPEC). In 2011, he created the Vaccine Research Institute laboratory of excellence under the Investissement d’Avenir (Investment for the Future) programme and has been its executive director.[3] In 2012, he became a special advisor to the Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation Geneviève Fioraso.[4]
In June 2014, after 29 years of working at INSERM, Lévy was appointed its CEO by ministers Marisol Touraine and Fioraso.[2][5] During confirmation hearings, a conflict of interest was brought up for the first time, because his wife had been appointed by Emmanuel Macron as the minister of health in May 2017.[1] Although his term expired June 11, 2018 and in spite of public controversy he remained the interim head.[6][7] As of mid June 2018 he was expected to run again.[8] but on 30 July 2018 he withdrew his candidacy .
On October 11, 2018, the Minister of Justice Nicole Belloubet appointed Lévy as "advisor of state in extraordinary service".[9] In May 2019, during a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo , Jean-Yves Le Drian, the Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs appointed him as his special envoy on the Kivu Ebola epidemic.[10][11]
Since 1997, Lévy has been married to French hematologist and former French health minister Agnès Buzyn. They have one child together.
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