Governance

 

BioVision is an independant forum, organised by a private french foundation: the "Fondation Scientifique de Lyon et du Sud-Est".

 

1. Scientific Committee

 

An international scientific committee has been set up, in partnership with the French Academy of Sciences. The committee is in charge of selecting BioVision programme's themes and speakers. Composed of internationally recognized scientific personalities, the committee guarantees BioVision programme's quality.

Chairman:

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

 Members:

• 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. Pierre-Marie Lledo, Director of Research, Institut Pasteur
• Pr. Helga Nowotny, President, European Research Council (Austria)
• Pr. Michael Oborne, Director of International Futures programme, OECD (USA)
• Pr. Thierry Philip, former Director of the Léon Bérard Cancer Centre in Lyon
• Pr. Jacques Samarut, Director, ENS-Lyon
• Pr. Philippe Sansonetti, Professor, Collège de France
• Pr. François Taddei, Research Director, INSERM
• Pr. Didier Trono, Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences, EPFL (Switzerland)

 

 2. Sterring Committee

 The streering committee defines the major orientations of the project.

The committee is composed of:

- Patrick Aebischer, Chairman, EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
- Gérard Collomb, Senator and Mayor of Lyon
- Philippe Desmarescaux, Chairman and founder of BioVision
- Amir Dossal, Executive Director of UNOP – UN Office for Partnership (USA)
- Eric Froment, Chairman, Fondation Scientifique de Lyon et du Sud-Est
- Michel Lussault, President of the PRES (Pole de Recherche et d’Enseignement Supérieur -Research and Higher Education Cluster)
- Michel Mercier, Minister for Rural Affairs and Town and Country Planning, and Chairman of the Rhone Department General Council
- Alain Mérieux, President, Institut Mérieux
- Koji Omi, Founder and Chairman of the Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum (Japan)
- Pr. 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, Founder of BioVisionAlexandria (Egypt)
- André Syrota, Chairman of AVIESAN - the National Life Sciences and Health Alliance
- Elias Zerhouni, former director of NIH, Senior fellow, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (USA)

 

3. Executive Team

The excecutive team is composed as follow:

- Executive director : Mr Christian Grenier
- Executive assistant : Mrs Carole Brogin
- Programme Officer : Mr Christophe Dercamp
- Director of operations : Mrs Claire Fromentin-Kuljaninovic
- Communication Manager / Internet projects : Ms Elise Tabet


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