Yves Lévy

Yves Lévy is a French physician researcher and professor of clinical immunology. Since 2014, Lévy has been CEO of the Inserm the French Institute of Health and Medical Research.

Early life and education

Yves Lévy was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and arrived in France with his parents in 1973. He was naturalised one and a half year later. His passion was literature, before he turned to medicine. After studying medicine and finishing his residency he dedicated himself to HIV research in 1986.[1]

Career

Levy became a professor of clinical immunology, specializing on immunotherapies and vaccines for HIV infection, immunodeficiencies and infectious diseases.[2]

Since 1985 he has been working in different research units at the Inserm, the French Institute of Health and Medical Research.[2]

From 1996 to the present he has directed the Department of Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Henri Mondor de Créteil Hospital.[2]

In 2006, Yves Lévy became scientific director of the vaccine programme of the French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis (ANRS).[3]

In 2011, he created the Vaccine Research Institute laboratory of excellence under the Investissement d’Avenir (Investment for the Future) programme and has been its executive director.[3]

From 2010 to 2012, Lévy was vice-dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Paris-Est Créteil University (UPEC). He became a special advisor to the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation.

In June 2014, after 29 years of working at INSERM Lévy was appointed its CEO.[2] During confirmation hearings, a conflict of interest was brought up for the first time because his wife had been appointed by Emmanuel Macron as the minister of health in May 2017.[1] His term expired June 11, and he remains the interim head, despite a controversy .[4][5] He is expected to run again.[6]

Personal life

Yves Lévy is married to French hematologist and current French health minister Agnès Buzyn. They have one child together.

References

  1. 1 2 Yves Lévy, patron de l’Inserm Le Monde 26.06.2014, retrieved 16 June 2018
  2. 1 2 3 4 INSERM Yves Lévy, new Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Inserm Press release, 11 June 2014, retrieved 16 June 2018
  3. 1 2 Yves Lévy Vaccine Research Institute, 2016, retrieved 16 June 2018
  4. ↑ Eric Favereau Yves Lévy reconduit par intérim à la tête de l'Inserm Liberation, 12 June 2018, retrieved 16 June 2018
  5. ↑ Isabelle Barré, Le mari de la ministre embarrasse l'Elysée], Le Canard enchaîné(subscription required) 9 May 2018, p. 3, retrieved 16 June 2018 accessible as clip here
  6. ↑ France may be back, but the old ways persist for INSERM. The Lancet, Volume 391, Issue 10138, p 2390, retrieved 16 June 2018.
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