Pierre Tiollais
Pierre Jean René Noël Tiollais (born on December 8, 1934 in Rennes) is a French medical doctor and biologist.
He is a member of the French Academy of sciences[1] of the Institut Pasteur and the French Academy of Medicine.[2]
In 1979, in collaboration with Francis Galibert, he carried out the complete sequencing of the hepatitis B virus genome, which made it possible to manufacture the first detection tests and screening for this disease.[citation needed]
In 1985, with his collaborators at the Institut Pasteur, he created a vaccine obtained by genetic engineering (recombinant vaccine) against hepatitis B, prepared on Chinese hamster ovary cells (CHO) .[3] His team were the first to create the hepatitis B vaccine using CHO cells. In 1990, he received the research prize from the Allianz-Institut de France Foundation.[4]
References
- ^ "Académie des sciences".
- ^ "Académie nationale de Médecine".
- ^ L'Histoire des vaccinations, Hervé Bazin
- ^ Allianz s’engage depuis 30 ans dans la recherche médicale
