Laurent Degos is doctor of human biology and graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health. He is professor of clinical haematology at University Paris Diderot.<\/p>\n
He was head of the University Haematology Institute at Saint-Louis Hospital and of the the INSERM (French Medical research Institute) \u201cTransplantation immunogenetics\u201d department, of the clinical blood disease department at Saint-Louis Hospital, professor of haematology at Paris VII University, and director of the Biology and Biotechnology Graduate School.<\/p>\n
Laurent Degos has published scientific articles in the fields of genetics, immunology, haematology and cancer. In particular, he discovered with Wang Zheng YI (Shanghai) how to transform a leukemic cell into a normal cell, thereby opening up a new approach to cancer treatment, targeted therapy and paersonlized treatment, rewarded by several prizes prizes including Kettering General Motors Prize (Washington, 1994), Brupbacher (Zurich), Gagna and Von Hoeck Prize (Brussels), Curie Loubaresse award and the Jean Bernard Award of European Hematology Association (Amsterdam 2012).<\/p>\n
In 2004, Laurent Degos was appointed Chairman of the Board of the Haute Autorit\u00e9 de sant\u00e9, until 2010. The Haute Autorit\u00e9 de Sant\u00e9 is an independent public body for quality and safety of health and health care. Prior to that, he chaired the governing bodies of the French Agency for Health Product Safety (AFSSAPS) and the French Transplantation Agency (EFG \u2013 now the Biomedicine Agency).<\/p>\n
He is currently co chair (with Chen Zhu, Minister of Health in China) of FFCSA (French-Chinese Foundation for Science and its Application) and Vice President of the comprehensive cancer center Institut Curie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Laurent Degos is doctor of human biology and graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health. He is professor of clinical haematology at University Paris Diderot. He was head of the University Haematology Institute at Saint-Louis Hospital and of the the INSERM (French Medical research Institute) \u201cTransplantation immunogenetics\u201d department, of the clinical blood disease department […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":51206,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[]},"sa_speaker_category":[83,31,41,34],"sa_language":[250,253],"sa_employability":[188,170],"class_list":["post-77824","sa_speaker","type-sa_speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sa_speaker_category-creativity","sa_speaker_category-government-politics","sa_speaker_category-health","sa_speaker_category-technology-innovation"],"acf":{"sa_introduction":"Laurent Degos is doctor of human biology and graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health. He is professor of clinical haematology at University Paris Diderot.\n\nHe was head of the University Haematology Institute at Saint-Louis Hospital and of the the INSERM (French Medical research Institute) \u201cTransplantation immunogenetics\u201d department, of the clinical blood disease department at Saint-Louis Hospital, professor of haematology at Paris VII University, and director of the Biology and","sa_one_liner":"Doctor in haematology, pioneer of a new approach to cancer treatment","sa_name_title":"","sa_region":[],"sa_degree":"","sa_stars":"","sa_maglr_ids":null,"sa_publications":null,"sa_socials":null,"sa_subjects":[{"sa_subjects_title":"Health industry","sa_subjects_information":""},{"sa_subjects_title":"Health technology assessment","sa_subjects_information":""},{"sa_subjects_title":"Public health","sa_subjects_information":""},{"sa_subjects_title":"Technological leaps","sa_subjects_information":""},{"sa_subjects_title":"Personalized medicine","sa_subjects_information":""},{"sa_subjects_title":"Chinese traditional medicine","sa_subjects_information":""},{"sa_subjects_title":"Occidental medicine","sa_subjects_information":""}],"sa_faq_items":null,"sa_minimum_price":"0","sa_maximum_price":"0","sa_banner_image_id":null,"sa_videos":null},"yoast_head":"\n