Laurent Degos

  • Biologie humaine et sciences médicales
  • Comité science, éthique et société
  • Date of birth: 1945
  • Élu Correspondant en
  • Lecturer/Researcher (Université Paris Cité), Former President and Founder of the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS), Former Director of the Ecole doctorale Biologie et Biotechnologie, and of the Institut Universitaire d'Hémat

Elected correspondent on April 22, 1996
Section: Human biology and medical sciences

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Laurent Degos
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  • Comité science, éthique et société
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Biography

Laurent Degos has dedicated his research to public health, genetics, oncology and hematology. The transformation of the malignant cell into a quasi-normal cell (targeted therapy by differentiation of the malignant cell of acute promyelocytic leukemia) was his main discovery made with Wang Zhen Yi (Shanghai). Kettering Prize from the General Motors Foundation (Washington, 1994). He was also involved in the HLA genetic discovery with Jean Dausset Nobel Prize 1980 (theoretical study of linkage disequilibrium in population genetics) and in the first descriptions of platelet molecules currently targeted by anti-thrombosis drugs.

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