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 Scientific committee

A new international scientific committee has been established in close partnership with the Academy of Sciences. The Committee is in charge of selecting the programme themes and suggesting speakers. The Committee is responsible for the programme scientific quality and is made up of sixteen internationally recognised personalities.


Chairman:

•    Pr. François Gros, Permanent Honorary Secretary of the Academy of Sciences

Members:

•    Pr. Charles Auffray, Research Director Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) France

•    Pr. Pascale Cossart, Research Director, Institut Pasteur, Academy of Sciences

•    Pr. Evelyn Fox Keller, Professor, MIT (USA)

•    Pr. Richard Frackowiak, Professor, University of Lausanne (Switzerland)

•    Pr. Liselotte Højgaard, Professor, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

•    Pr. Philippe Kourilsky, Professor, Collège de France

•    Pr. Jean-Marie Lehn, Professor, Collège de France, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

•    Pr. Bruno Lina, Professor of Virology University of Lyon France

•    Pr. Pierre-Marie Lledo, Director of Research, Institut Pasteur

•    Pr. Helga Nowotny, President, European Research Council (Austria)

•    Pr. Michael Oborne, Director of International Futures programme, OCDE (USA)

•    Pr. Jacques Samarut, President, ENS-Lyon

•    Pr. Philippe Sansonetti, Professor, Collège de France

•    Pr. Paul Seabright , Professor of Economics Toulouse School of Economics France

•    Pr. François Taddei, Research Director, INSERM

•    Pr. Didier Trono, Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences, EPFL (Switzerland)
 

 Steering committee

 
The Steering Committee approves strategic orientations and gives formal expression to links with some of BioVision’s main partners.

Members:

• Patrick Aebischer, Chairman, EPFL – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)

• Gérard Collomb, Senator and Mayor of Lyon, President of the Greater Lyon

• Philippe Desmarescaux, Chairman and founder of BioVision

• Amir Dossal, Executive Director of UNOP – UN Office for Partnerships (USA)

• Eric Froment, Chairman, Fondation Scientifique de Lyon et du Sud-Est

• Michel Lussault, Chairman of University of Lyon

• Michel Mercier, Minister of Justice and Chairman of the Rhone Department General Council

• Alain Mérieux, Chairman, Institut Mérieux

• Koji Omi, Founder and Chairman of the Science and Technology in Society (STS)
forum (Japan)

• Jacob Palis, Chairman, TWAS (The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World), (Brazil)

• Jean-Jack Queyranne, former minister and Chairman of the Rhone-Alps Region

• Ismail Serageldin, Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt); Professor, Collège de France

• André Syrota, Chairman, National Life Sciences and Health Alliance

• Elias Zerhouni, Chair of Scientific Committee,  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Professor, Collège de France

 

 Executive team

The excecutive team is composed as follow:

•    Executive Director: M. Christian Grenier

•    Executive assistant: Mrs Carole Brogin

•    Programme Officer: Dr Christophe Dercamp

•    Director of Operations: Mrs Claire Fromentin-Kuljaninovic

•    Head, Corporate alliances: Mr  Yannick Foing

•    Project coordinator, BioVision.Nxt: Mrs Delphine Botti

•   Communication Manager / Internet projects: Mrs Aurélie Bellemin

•   Webmaster: Mr Antoine Bellon


Three scientific advisors to the Executive director:
 
- Pr. Alain J. Cozzone:

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Lyon and Professor at the Institut Universitaire de France. Founder and former Director of the Institute of Biology and Chemistry of Proteins (CNRS/Univ. Lyon).

- M. Alain Godard

Agronomist and former CEO of Aventis Cropscience

- Dr. Jean-Jacques Leguay

Former deputy director of Life Sciences Division, CEA